Selma
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I just made my first design with artisteer. It has a sidebar (or column) on the right side of the page. I added a search widget and some blocks in it.
When I uploaded my theme in wordpress, it didn't show my sidebar! The header, footer and my blogposts were there, but I couldn't find my sidebar! It only has one column now. I spend hours to get it fixed, but even though I tried really hard... it didn't work.
Luckily I was able to get my old theme back, so my site doesn't look crappy now, but I really would like to have my new design on my site!
Is this a common problem with artisteer and wordpress? How do I fix it?
With love from Belgium!
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Selma
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I did a test upload with the basic new theme from artisteer and it gave the same problem. What is wrong? It's really frustrating!
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techtom
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Hi Selma,
So In Artisteer you have a sidebar on the right hand side of your theme. It is a two column layout.
Once you install the theme and add the widgets, are you adding them to primary widget area?
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Selma
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Hahaha, I feel really stupid now, but no, I didn't (and I tried for hours, I even changed the css and php files). Thanks for the question, because it helped me further!
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techtom
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Hi Selma,
There is no reason to feel stupid. You are learning. It takes everyone time to figure things out.
Did you get you problem fixed?
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richd
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Hi Selma,
I am having the same problem. I have active widgets in the Primary sidebar but they do not show up when I activate the theme. I do have a theme built with a previous version of Artisteer and the widgets do show up in that theme.
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Jacobrk
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Just a thought.
In wordpress on each page there is an option to.....show sidebar on this page. Any chance the option is off?
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richd
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Checked to make sure sidebar was enabled on each page. I was able to resolve this by setting the sidebar to a percentage rather than fixed width.
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richd
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Quote richd:
Checked to make sure sidebar was enabled on each page. I was able to resolve this by setting the sidebar to a percentage rather than fixed width.
I am wrong, this actually did not resolve the issue. Any help would be appreciated.
Here is the web address for reference: http://daytonaflhomes.com/
As you can see the sidebar is at the bottom.
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techtom
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Hi richd,
You have a sidebar at the bottom of your page which is sidebar1 ( primary widget area ) Is that supposed to be there or to the left or right of the page at the top?
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richd
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The sidebar is supposed to be to the right. With the theme design it is to the right and from the dashboard it is in the Primary widget area, but for some reason it is pushed to the bottom.
While I do have the ability to add sidebars to both the top and bottom, I have not done this with this website.
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techtom
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can you temporarily unpublish the welcome post so I can better see what the layout is set to?
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richd
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Thanks techtom,
I have created a new front page entitle TEMP that has no content. I hope this helps.
http://daytonaflhomes.com/
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techtom
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can you add these to the bottom of your style.css file and update and see if that is how it is supposed to look.
.art-content-layout .art-content { float:left;}
.art-content-layout .art-sidebar1 {float:right;}
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richd
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I added the bit of code as instructed then checked the Welcome page with the content still on it but there was no changes. Sidebar is still being pushed to the bottom.
I have left the code and am linking the Welcome page so you can see what I mean. http://daytonaflhomes.com/welcome/
The issue with the sidebar is carried through on every page.
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techtom
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But if you add it does the temp page look right?
I am trying to see what we are after then see if we can figure out what is causing the issues
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richd
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Unfortunately no. It had no impact on the sidebar. I have left it in the style.css for the time being.
Thanks for all your help.
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speedyp
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* Disable all active plugins
* Remove all widgets from your sidebar
* Insert one simple text widget in your primary widget area and type a couple of words in it. Testing... testing...
If that doesn't help, take another look at your theme in artisteer in browser preview. If that looks OK, try exporting your theme again...
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techtom
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Hi speedy  long time no talk too.
richd,
am I looking at the righ tsite. I don't see the code in the style.css. Add it at the very bottom of the style.css file.
.art-content-layout .art-content { float:left;}
.art-content-layout .art-sidebar1 {float:right;}
When I test the temp page with that code it looks fine. well looks fine to me. Not sure if it is what it is supposed to be. Sidebar is to the right and aligned at the top of the white sheet bottom of logo.
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Speedypancake
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Hey Tom :). Admire your persistence. What's your hourly rate these days?!! 
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techtom
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BTW richd, as speedy suggested it might be good to disable the plugins one at a time to see if any are causing the issue. It seems like there is something somewhere that is causing the divs to move all over the place. This could be something from one of the plugins.
That is why I had you remove your content to eliminate that it was not that causing the issues.
the code I gave you to try was more to see if that is what the site is supposed to look like then see if we can get it to work.
any you are most welcome for the assistance. That's what we are here for.
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techtom
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When I have time I like to come back and help. I usually just leave the forums in a open window and just bounce between it and whatever I am working on when trying to figure out a problem.
In many ways it is a good way to sharpen your skills.
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techtom
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If the temp page looks right try adding a width to the css you added like
.art-content-layout .art-content { float:left; width:700px;}
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speedyp
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Quote techtom:
If the temp page looks right try adding a width to the css you added like
.art-content-layout .art-content { float:left; width:700px;}
Hah! Hadn't noticed the temp page looked OK (was using mobile last night & couldn't see sidebars anyway )
Weird things going on here. Hope he gets it fixed soon - the world is crying out for another real estate website.
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techtom
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I have seen everything on the internet so new content is good.
I am thinking having to add floats to the divs should not have to happen. I still can't see what exactly the issue is whether something was manually changed causing issues or if a plugin is causing them.
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richd
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Quote speedyp:
Quote techtom:
If the temp page looks right try adding a width to the css you added like
.art-content-layout .art-content { float:left; width:700px;}
This worked. The only change I made is the width. Thank you both for all of your help.
If interested, here is how it looks http://daytonaflhomes.com/
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techtom
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Great,
glad it is working for you.
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silversurf
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I was having the same problem. It's funny how people advertise this product, "no html, no css skills required" easy interface, yet some of us are actually forced to alter the css at times.
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techtom
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Technically, you can indeed build a great looking theme without ever touching any code. The problem is once you install your theme and start adding content you do have to spend time tweaking code. So it can be misleading to new comers. However, Artisteer is by far the easiest way to create a Wordpress theme that I have found and I bet it has helped a lot of people who would never have been able to manually put together a theme to create their own themes for their websites. It has a lot of built in options ready to go to handle most of what someone might need and allows me to put together a great looking theme quickly without all the hassles.
That being said, I don't think people should expect to be able to build and maintain a website without knowing any web technologies. You would not do this in other areas of your life. For example, most people would never consider fixing their cars engine without proper knowledge or replacing their kitchen sink without at least some knowledge of plumbing.
There are things I certainly would like to see done different with Artisteer but for now it just works and saves me time.
I think my biggest gripe is with the forums. I wish we had PM and the forums were organized better for people to find what they needed help with easier. There is a lot of great tips and helpful solutions buried in the forums but sometimes it can be difficult to find them.
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ernievi
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Quote :Quote techtom: If the temp page looks right try adding a width to the css you added like .art-content-layout .art-content { float:left; width:700px;}
Want to thank Tom for this. Just bought Artisteer today and spent a couple of hours fiddling with the same problem until I stumbled into this. The code on changing the width did the trick.
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