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impetusetudiant on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

impetusetudiant — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:08:12 +0000

Ahhh. K. Thanks for the explanation. Appreciate it!

designsimply on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

designsimply — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:19:39 +0000

You can't move content from one page to another using just CSS. What you can do with CSS is adjust the appearance of things that are already on the page.

I checked the info page for The Columnist theme:
http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/the-columnist/

And it says:

Widgets will not appear in any template where multiple posts are displayed.

That means there's not a way to add widgets to the home page displaying multiple posts. It's a limitation of the theme.

If you wanted to go deeper, you can get full control of the code, including HTML and PHP and the theme itself, if you switch to a WordPress.org setup.

impetusetudiant on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

impetusetudiant — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:44:39 +0000

Euh... Kay I give up. Thought I could work it out from what you provided above, but I'm still coming up short.

The cats and tags will display beside each post (single post left column), but I've been aiming to have them on the front page instead (main left column)... 'Twas why I mentioned the display issue above ... Maybe has something to do with it? All my efforts to date have been futile :)

impetusetudiant on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

impetusetudiant — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:04:16 +0000

Dead on. Thank-you!

designsimply on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

designsimply — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 19:41:33 +0000

Based on your current configuration (using all of the footer widget areas), you can move the tag cloud widget from below posts to the left sidebar using absolute positioning. Here is an example to get you started:

#first {
	position: absolute;
	top: 460px;
	left: -280px;
	width: 223px;
}

.three .widget-area, .four .widget-area {
	width: 193px;
}

You may also want to give the bottom of the tag cloud a little extra room:

#wp_tag_cloud div {
	padding-bottom: .2em;
}

impetusetudiant on "Custom addition to sidebar area (The Columnist)?"

impetusetudiant — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:03:24 +0000

Hi There,

I'd like to move some of my widgets to the left column of my blog - the category and tag cloud in particular. They are presently in the footer, in accordance with the theme's design.

I can see the sidebar entry in the original CSS, and that it's display is "none". But I can't seem to change that, no matter what I try. I should add that I'm not skilled with code :)

Any insights?

timethief on "Widget: Customizable Tag Cloud Details"

timethief — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:59:52 +0000

This thread will be moved to the Ideas Forum where we make suggestions to Staff re: features and functions additions and improvements.

mrooneyoc on "Widget: Customizable Tag Cloud Details"

mrooneyoc — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 18:30:22 +0000

I see people have suggested it before, but I haven't seen any response. I would love to see the ability to customize the Tag Cloud widget to:

(a) restrict the number of tags shown (45 featured tags is a lot),
(b) customize the % size of tags, and
(c) remove the requirement for a permanent widget title (i.e. "TAGS").

I customize my own headers for each widget by using the "text" widget and the default header requirement for the Tag Cloud widget interrupts the flow.

airodyssey on "tag-cloud as widget?"

airodyssey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:03:54 +0000

Glad I could help :-)

courseofmirrors on "tag-cloud as widget?"

courseofmirrors — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:51:07 +0000

sorted, thanks for all your help :)

courseofmirrors on "tag-cloud as widget?"

courseofmirrors — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:38:06 +0000

airoodyssey, thanks for the link, I'll study it :)

courseofmirrors on "tag-cloud as widget?"

courseofmirrors — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:51 +0000

When I pull 'tag cloud into the widget space in only says 'Tag'

airodyssey on "tag-cloud as widget?"

airodyssey — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:35:20 +0000

Did you actually "tag" your posts?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/#assigning-tags-via-your-dashboard

courseofmirrors on "tag-cloud as widget?"

courseofmirrors — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:55:47 +0000

I'm probably did this wrong. I had gone to post tags, entered 7 tags and did bulk action. Nothing showed up on the side bar.

dlager on "tag-cloud as widget?"

dlager — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:32:30 +0000

It appears that you are only using one tag "Home".

I think the widget needs more than one tag to work.

courseofmirrors on "tag-cloud as widget?"

courseofmirrors — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:22:45 +0000

I can't seem to make a tag cloud appear in the widget space. Any suggestions?

panaghiotisadam on "Tag Clouds - Don't look like they should"

panaghiotisadam — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:13:57 +0000

You don't fx anything. Your tags are all the same size because so far you've used them all once only. The more you use a tag, the larger it becomes.

cihcafe on "Tag Clouds - Don't look like they should"

cihcafe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:07:51 +0000

I am using the Press Row theme and am using the Tag Clouds Widget. The tags are all the same size font, and underlined - the tags are not varied in size as they are in other Tag Clouds on other blog. How do I fix this?

timethief on "Editing 'Category Clouds' & creating tag clouds"

timethief — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:26:46 +0000

The Category cloud widget contains options but the Tag Cloud does not.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tag-cloud-widget/

ookwudili on "Editing 'Category Clouds' & creating tag clouds"

ookwudili — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:17:35 +0000

Which is the best way to edit 'category clouds', as it seems once their set their set, right?

Are bloggers to re-create each time?

http://blogspot6.wordpress.com/

raincoaster on "Tag clouds truly that useful? Do you click on them?"

raincoaster — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:37:46 +0000

Virtually nothing in a sidebar gets clicked on. I will look at a tag cloud to get a quick grasp of the main focus of the blog, but rarely click on any. Ads have conditioned people to ignore things in sidebars.

maidiebike on "Tag clouds truly that useful? Do you click on them?"

maidiebike — Sun, 23 May 2010 00:32:55 +0000

As a reader of other people's blogs, I don't use their tag clouds. I just don't find it useful except a signal what the main scope of the blog MIGHT be. But that could be misleading also.

Also when the cloud gets too jammed with different tag keywords, I scarcely find it useful at all --from the standpoint of clickability.

As you can tell, I opted not to use a tag cloud. Especially on a company/business blog.

thesacredpath on "Tag Cloud doesn't display"

thesacredpath — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:41:52 +0000

You can find a list of threads you have started or posted in by clicking your username in the blue band at the top of the forum pages where it says, "Welcome, username!"

thesacredpath on "Tag Cloud doesn't display"

thesacredpath — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:39:32 +0000

You were answered in the other thread you started yesterday: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cannot-get-started-on-tag-clouds?replies=2 .

meseemarvel on "Tag Cloud doesn't display"

meseemarvel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:14:49 +0000

I want and added a Category cloud and saved but only the title is displayed on my blog http://meseemarvel.wordpress.com/. I watched video and followed instructions and noticed that the screen on the video looks different than my screen. JS

thesacredpath on "Cannot get started on tag clouds"

thesacredpath — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:34:04 +0000

If you are talking about the "Cat cloud" at the top of your sidebar, it will only show categories that have been assigned to at least one post. All your posts so far are only assigned to the "uncategorized" category.

You have to create the categories and then assign them to posts.

meseemarvel on "Cannot get started on tag clouds"

meseemarvel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:08 +0000

Can someone help me get started with a tag cloud. I've seen the videos and read material on it but can't get it to work. "Tag cloud" is on my blog but it doesn't show any categories like the instructional videos shows.

ellaella on "Relative tag clouds"

ellaella — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:11:13 +0000

Or you might need a format more intended for CMS than a little blog with limited options in that regard.

simonwoodhead on "Relative tag clouds"

simonwoodhead — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:10:42 +0000

OK ellaella, I'll have a look at the forum sticky. My tag system would be quite a lot more complicated that the example I gave so maybe I need to implement so sort of database.

Simon

ellaella on "Relative tag clouds"

ellaella — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:15:27 +0000

Even with my pitiful math I got the joke and it's very cute!

Okay - tags don't work that way. The only way you could achieve that is to create another tag called "easy and angle" or some such, whatever you like, and that will, in turn, create a not just a new entry in the cloud but also a new archive page for you of easy and angle. You could then use that url in many ways outside the tag cloud.

And now the other dreaded bit: Please consider linking your blog to your user name as outlined in the forum sticky called "8 Things to Know.." We almost always need the link and will ask for it.