WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error en Mon, 20 May 2013 03:23:11 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 panaghiotisadam on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-796438 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:03:28 +0000 panaghiotisadam 796438@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In the post I linked to you can find all the themes that have a right sidebar (under "One sidebar" and "Sidebar(s) plus bottom and/or header"). And in the post TSP linked to you can find which ones you should exclude (namely: Autofocus, Black-Letterhead, Blix, Connections, Day Dream, Duster, Grid Focus, Iceburgg, Fauna, Kubrick, Oulipo, Sapphire, Steira, Sunburn, Twenty Eleven).

]]> kothea on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-796089 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:44:40 +0000 kothea 796089@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thank you. maybe i'm stupid.

but if i want widgets to appear in the right hand bar AT ALL TIMES then what is the wordpress-name of the feature that I am looking for when i look through themes

or, like life, is it more complicted that that!

thank again :-)

]]> panaghiotisadam on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-796037 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:31:31 +0000 panaghiotisadam 796037@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You'll probably need this post too:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/sidebars-and-other-widget-areas/

]]> thesacredpath on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-796010 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:09:32 +0000 thesacredpath 796010@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You are welcome.

Not all themes are the same. I have one client that wanted the sidebars to show on the main page, but not on the single post page at all. His reasoning was that he did not what any distractions when the visitor was reading the post. I've also got clients that have micromanaged widgets to a fault and each individual page has different widgets on it (these are all self-hosted so I can do that easily enough).

Theme designers also have their own ideas as to what is going to be included and what is not on pages and posts. That is one of the reasons that there are so many themes out there. Everyone is an individual (designer and user) and each has different ideas as to how they want things.

]]> kothea on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-796006 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:00:25 +0000 kothea 796006@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ thank you and yes you were right regarding the dontcompromise site!

it would seem tho that one of the first things any blogger would want to do is ensure that a visitor roams around HIS/HER blog as much as possible.

the archived entry, and the like, really discourange this.

anyway...what do i know.

]]> thesacredpath on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-795988 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:17:32 +0000 thesacredpath 795988@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Panos has a post that covers which themes have sidebars on the post pages and such.

http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/widgets-on-pages-or-single-posts/

What I see in the right sidebar on that post you reference is the standard post metadata (Archive Entry), not the normal sidebar widgets and such.

]]> kothea on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-795984 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:10:30 +0000 kothea 795984@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ ok so how does this blog get the right hand bar working. it uses connections too?

http://dontcompromise.askeurope.com/2012/01/17/how-to-strangle-innovation/

confused of london !!!

]]> kothea on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-795983 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:07:45 +0000 kothea 795983@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ i suspect a "no" answer to this question

but can you suggest which theme might be most-similar ... i have spent ages looking through them and arrived at the one currently used which is not great and i am loathe to go through all the custom css again as it is not my technical forte.

OR

is there a specific tag that i can search for that would let me know that a specific theme supports the right hand bar full functionality?

thanks

]]> thesacredpath on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-795981 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:04:42 +0000 thesacredpath 795981@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The version of Connections used here is different than the one on the author's website. There is no way to edit things to have the sidebar appear on the single-post pages. That would require access to, and hacking of the underlying theme PHP script files and we cannot do that here.

]]> kothea on "Connections theme vanillamist - right hand bar error" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/connections-theme-vanillamist-right-hand-bar-error#post-795976 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:29 +0000 kothea 795976@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I want to go back to using the CONNECTIONS theme but there is a major problem for me with the right hand bar:

I used to use the excellent CONNECTIONS theme by vanillamist.com. I spent a long time doing custom CSS on this. I even made the custom CSS available on this forum (how kind of me!). Unfortunately it took me a long time to realise that when a user goes to a particular page (ie NOT the home page) the right hand bar functionality disappears and is repalced by "Archived Entry" information.

This archived entry info is shown here when you preview my site using the connections theme:

http://blog.kothea.com/2009/11/12/pitching-winning-managing-business-for-interior-designers/?preview=1&template=pub/connections&stylesheet=pub/connections

However if you go to the author's website/blog you will see that she retains the functionality of the right hand bar. As shown here

http://vanillamist.com/blog/?p=110 nullRe: connections theme by vanillamist - right hand side bar

That is what I want to do.

Help pleae.

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