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drmike on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

drmike — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:33:20 +0000

There was a two column widgetized version of Regulus but that designer is no longer offering it for download. It's come up in the past both here and over at wp.org

sunburntkamel on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

sunburntkamel — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:28:27 +0000

you can start hacking on the stylesheets from regulus here:
http://matt.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/regulus/style.css
http://othermatters.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/regulus/switch.css

custom CSS doesn't replace your existing stylesheets, it just adds another stylesheet after them.

if you're seriously thinking of porting regulus to sandbox, it would be a nice courtesy to check with brian @ binary moon to make sure he doesn't have a port underway already. before forking his project, you might also want to ask if he'd consider adding the features you want to regulus.

othermatters on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

othermatters — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:32:44 +0000

thanks for the replies. wank and timethief, that's exactly my problem :)

engtech, intriguing suggestion! does anyone else think it'll work? and how can i actually get a hold of the regulus css (since in the case of my own css editor i only have an empty field for css edits that would override the regulus css)?

engtech on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

engtech — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:23:38 +0000

You could always apply the Regulus CSS to Sandbox. :)

timethief on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

timethief — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:27:25 +0000

The regulus default is the two column sidebar version. As soon as you add the widgets it becomes a single column sidebar or at least that's what I was told.

wank on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

wank — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:07:01 +0000

There seems to be only one sidebar div in the current version of Regulus, so I can't see any easy way of converting the single-column sidebar back to two other than setting up an .org blog on your own host. You can get rid of the category count, but I expect support have already told you that.

othermatters on "Will CSS customization fix Regulus widgets?"

othermatters — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:17:00 +0000

I'm a big fan of Regulus, and want to stick with it. But the introduction of the sidebar widgets seems to have thrown a couple of things off:

1. The original two-column format of the sidebar has been changed to a single column, so I now have a lot of white space I could be using better (e.g., in the blogroll).

2. The category count (i.e., number of posts in a particular category) appears on a second line, again wasting a lot of space.

So here's my question: now that I've bought the CSS customization upgrade, can I fix these problems with stylesheet overrides? Or will I have to move to a wordpress.org blog? Support says there's nothing they can do.