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help with custom theme breakage


  • duvy
    Member

    @duvy

    Hi everyone. I have wordpress 2.9.2, BP Template Pack, and buddypress 1.2 using the Suffusion theme it is running just fine, but I can’t seem to get the sidebars and content to line up. If you have a look at my site

    http://www.darkfaery-subculture.com/members/admin/activity/

    the sidebars and content break. I’ve spent two days trying to find the solution and it’s probably an easy one, but I am stressed out now. I would appreciate if someone could help me or point me in the right direction. Thanks in advance!

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  • r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    For #sidebar, add {float:right}.

    For the second #container, add {float: left; width: 57%;}


    duvy
    Member

    @duvy

    It didn’t work it made everything smaller, but the two side bars and the content were still broken. I appreciate the effort.


    r-a-y
    Keymaster

    @r-a-y

    Forget the sidebar CSS I wrote above.

    Try just adding {float: left; width: 57%;} to only the second #container and not both.


    modemlooper
    Moderator

    @modemlooper

    First glance at this and the HTML seems wrong and might be difficult to fix with CSS.

    The left sidebar should be inside the same container as the activity stream and the right sidebar. Looks like its inside the same container has the widgets across top.

    Basically you are trying to put a square inside a circle.

    Another thing I want to point in general. If a theme has .fix or .clearfix all over it. Then run the other way.


    Hugo Ashmore
    Keymaster

    @hnla

    “Another thing I want to point in general. If a theme has .fix or .clearfix all over it. Then run the other way”

    *puzzled*

    Qualify that statement! :)

    It’s somewhat misleading. In clearing floated elements it is necessary to employ a variety of techniques to accomplish this as each suites a different set of conditions met.

    The .clearfix set of rulesets you refer to is a well worn and tested method , first devised by Tony Asslet over at CSSCreator, improved a tweaked by many of us over the years. It is , in certain circumstances, the best method to clearing floated containers.

    What has me running a mile is seeing empty div elements with class=”clear” used to effect clearing as it’s both unnecessary and wrong to write empty elements and use them in this way, and it bores me to tears having to route through template files finding them all and deleting them with fury :)


    modemlooper
    Moderator

    @modemlooper

    “What has me running a mile is seeing empty div elements with class=”clear”

    Thats mainly what I’m talking about.


    Hugo Ashmore
    Keymaster

    @hnla

    @Duvy

    Looking at your layout shows some critical issues. You describe an element twice and give it the ID #container. ID’s are unique tokens that are only allowed to be used once per page and as such are generally applied to major markup framework structures #container is one such framework element that generally would occur once along with IDs such as #wrapper. It is an error for it to be used twice and that needs to be addressed first. If that element really does need to appear as a parent of #content you could change it to a class but better is to rename it altogether (second occurrence) However neither of these elements appear to have any rules associated with them so I wonder if things are not getting slightly mixed up here?

    #content has the property clear:both this will (and does) have the effect of clearing any previous floated elements or columns and is why it positions itself below what appear to be your sidebars, also it’s full width; in a basic three column layout you would need to add margins left and right equal to the sidebar widths doing both these things will pull that #content area up to the top, but the right sidebar will remain cleared below as it’s a floated element and follows after non floated content and must drop to the next available line and would require source ordering tricks to enable it to take position alongside #content.

    tbh at this stage I would be suggesting that you step back and revert to the previous styles as this feels as though it’s got a little out of hand and it’s difficult to correct in it’s present state. Start afresh and work through changes carefully perhaps seeking advice as you go. One of the difficulties is that without knowing for sure what the layout is supposed to look like or looked like before and what actual changes have been effected it’s hard to offer advice.


    Andrea Rennick
    Participant

    @andrea_r

    Guy, y’all led her down the wrong garden path. :)

    When you add BP to an exisiting theme, if the theme markup (HTML) is different than the default theme, then you have to change the HTML in the BP theme templates.

    Not the css, the HTML.

    @duvy – look in your WP theme folder. The BP template plugin shoudl have added some folders to your theme. Look in those folders. You’ll see some files and they’ have < div id=”content”> in them. Change that part to match your original theme.


    modemlooper
    Moderator

    @modemlooper

    Thats what I said :)

    First glance at this and the HTML seems wrong and might be difficult to fix with CSS.


    Andrea Rennick
    Participant

    @andrea_r

    Hee. :) Well, there’s all those words and stuff around it. :P

    At this point, theme integration is mainly template work.


    duvy
    Member

    @duvy

    Thank you, Andrea_r, I am going to go try that.

    I didn’t actually make the Suffusion theme guys. I used it because it was easy to set up, that is until I wanted to use buddypress and then the nice extra features of that theme turned into a tangled mess. lol.

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