I tried that option, but wow is it ugly on this theme. :(

The sticky option works on the main posts page only, not on category pages. Judging from the content of the single post on your "Grey Areas" category page, I'm guessing that what you're looking for is an intro to this page. To do this, you go to Posts > Categories, click Edit below the category name, type the intro into the Description field, click Update.

I dont know if it's protocol to ask another question on the same thread, but... would you or anyone have any idea how to make a post on a category always remain at the top? I have tried to work around this to no avail.

Any idea? The original image is 628, by the way.

Quick Specs (all measurements in pixels)
The main column width is 628 except in the Showcase page template where it’s 740

I wanted to know how I could use an image and have it display to the full width. I've done it with large images but I would like to start doing it with bands or strips, sort of like this (cabel.me), under the posts headline and time stamp. How can I achieve this look?

My site is (melhorleonor.com)

Widget Areas
Hum supports one Main Sidebar just after the content, three widget areas in the site footer, and an additional widget area (Showcase Sidebar) on the Showcase page template. You can configure these areas by going to Appearance -> Widgets. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/hum/

I have added one widget in the main sidebar and one widget in the showcase sidebar on the widgets page. But it is not showing up on my WordPress Page.

http://barrypiatoff.wordpress.com/

Is there something else I need to do to activate them?

I looked at the Showcase page I created last year for my site and then remembered why I decided not to use it. :) Being a visual site, I wanted all my posts "out there" rather than only display the post title after the first featured posts.

Here's Hum's Showcase Page template for anyone contemplating using it http://humdemo.wordpress.com/showcase-page-template/

1) The left sidebar on Hum is the equivalent of the header (on more conventional themes): it can display a header image, the blog title and tagline, and a navigation menu. The regular menu automatically displays links to all your published pages; you can replace it with a custom menu that can display links to anything.
2) Hum does not have a sidebar for widgets. It supports footer widgets only. What it calls "Main Sidebar", "Showcase Sidebar" and "Footer Area 1/2/3" should have been called "Upper Footer Main", "Upper Footer Showcase" and "Lower Footer 1/2/3", respectively.
3) If you add widgets to the so-called Main Sidebar, they'll show up on dynamic pages (main posts page, category pages, other archive pages). If you add widgets to the so-called Showcase Sidebar, they'll show up on the showcase template page. If you add widgets to the so-called Footer areas, they'll show up on dynamic pages and single posts, as well as on any static page for which you select the "sidebar" template.
4) You can't change the position of the widget areas, except if you have the Custom Design upgrade and experience in CSS editing.

In short: if you need a sidebar, you need a different theme.

I've been trying to use the space to the extreme left side as shown in the website above. Given that pages and widgets will not appear there (as none of us are unable to do that with these), is the only way, to write on the extreme left side of content, via CSS editing?

Thank you.

@nadastreet-Many themes have a special Page template which may affect the front page of the site or another page on the site.

If you look in the Page attributes module of the Page Editor, you can use the drop-down menu to see what page templates are available.

I am using Hum on one of my sites (shutterclutter.wordpress.com) and even after moving an existing widget from the footer to the sidebar, it does not display.

Widget Areas

Hum supports one Main Sidebar just after the content, three widget areas in the site footer, and an additional widget area (Showcase Sidebar) on the Showcase page template. You can configure these areas by going to Appearance -> Widgets.

More here: http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/hum/

(And I'm going to go look at a blank wall now to rest my eyes after looking at the site you linked to. Oh.My.)

Thank you for your help.

Alejandro.

Will do as you say. Thank you very much for helping.

I've made some adjustments to featured image and custom header sizes to better fit Hum. You may need to re-assign your featured images so they get cropped to the new dimensions (they will crop, not stretch). I've also made the search box more consistent with the rest of the theme. I hope this helps!

If you have further suggestions or issues, please start a new thread, since this one has been marked resolved. Thanks!

It seems you are running into some issues from Hum being a child theme of Twenty Eleven, and, as we're on feedback, I've also noticed the search field has a white border around the search box on the 404 page http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/page - seems a little out of the place. Might want to change that to the widget and sidebar search box style, or, to make it pop a little, leave the search box white and the white border transparent. I hope you don't mind my rambling.

I hope this was of any help. Looking forward to your reply!

I'm not seeing the same image dimensions on the two posts you noted.

http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/pandora-hearts-2/ - featured image displays at 188x288

http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/pandora-hearts/ - featured image displays at 188x154

This is the theme's intended behavior - the header displays at a maximum width of 188 pixels, and the height is flexible.

I'm wondering if this issue is specific to Safari for Windows... can you try viewing the site in a different browser, like Chrome or Firefox? Thanks!

The main issue is the header using a featured image changing sizes depending on the featured image: 131px x 200px here http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/pandora-hearts-2/ and
180px x 147px http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/pandora-hearts/ here.
I've noticed not all posts with featured images make the header change at all from the default, presumably depending on size and image's proportions (you can also see that I've been playing around with them in featured posts in http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/ and, in fact, seems those who don't change the header get a different display layout - very nice!), but I don't think something heterogenous like changing sizes depending on the featured image, which is aesthetically unpleasant, was the theme developers' intention, and if it was, please think it over to make it more uniform: either by fixating a size for the headers using featured images, or by making the headers not change at all.

Still on the header issues, I've still not encounter this issue on my main blog, but on my test blog the featured image on the header, instead of being cropped like in http://sugardrops.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/happy-easter/, it gets squeezed: http://atestblogforiru.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/oh-this-is-a-test/.

Thanks for solving the previous issue, and I hope this was of any help.
Looking forward to your reply.