Make footer widget areas bigger

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• Started 1 year ago by cheekykev
• Latest reply from Chris Beard
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1. 

   cheekykev
   Member

   There are 4 thin widget areas in the footer. How can i change this to just 2 wide widget areas?

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   Chris Beard
   

   Hey,
   in your footer.php delete two of these:
   

   <div class='box box_mini'>
   	            <h4>Archive</h4>
   				<ul>
   	            <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
   	            </ul>
   </div>

   They don't look exactly the same but just make sure you delete from <div ... > to </div> .. if this makes any sense.

   and in your style.css change the width of this element to make your 2 "big" widgets wider:
   .wrapper .box_mini

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   cheekykev
   Member

   I can see the css put i don't see any code like this in footer.php. In fact there isn't a single <div> in footer.php?

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   Chris Beard
   

   Your footer.php file should look something like this
   

   <?php global $k_option; ?>
   	</div><!-- end #top -->
   </div><!-- end #wrapper -->  
   
   <div class='wrapper' id='footerwrap'>
   
   	<div id='footer'>
   		<div class='footer_widgets'>
   		<?php
   		###########################################################################################################
   		# if footer widgets are applied to "footer widget area" display them, else show predefined lists
   		###########################################################################################################
   
   		if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Footer Area')) : else : 
   
   		$exclude = '';
   
   			if($k_option['blog']['blog_widget_exclude'] == 1)
   			{
   				$exclude = '&exclude='.$k_option['blog']['blog_cat_final'];
   			}
   		?>
   			<div class='box box_mini'>
   				<h4>Pages</h4>
   				<ul>
   		        <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?>
   		        </ul>
       		</div>
   
   			<div class='box box_mini'>
   	            <h4>Blogroll</h4>
   				<ul>
   	            <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>
   	            </ul>
               </div>
   
   		<?php
   		endif;
   		?>
   		</div>
   		<div class="box box_custom_footer">
   
   			<?php
   			############################################################################################
   			# FOOTER RIGHT BLOCK DEFINITIONS WITH FALLBACK MESSAGES IF NO DATABASE ENTRIES ARE FOUND
   			############################################################################################
   			if($k_option['footer']['button_link'] != '') $k_option['footer']['button_link'] = get_page_link($k_option['footer']['button_link']);
   			?>
   
   			<!-- big button -->
   			<a href='<?php echo $k_option['footer']['button_link'] ?>' class='custom_button ie6fix rounded'>
   				<strong><?php echo $k_option['footer']['button1']; ?></strong>
   				<span><?php echo $k_option['footer']['button2']; ?></span>
   			</a>
   
   			<div id='sitesearch_footer'>
   			<h4>Search Site</h4>
   				<?php get_search_form(); ?>
   			</div>
   
   			<!-- copyright text -->
   			<p><?php echo $k_option['footer']['copyright']; ?></p>
   
   			<!-- social bookmarks -->
   			<ul class="social_bookmarks">
   				<li class='rss'><a class='ie6fix' href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">RSS</a></li>
   				<?php
   				if($k_option['footer']['acc_fb'] != '')
   				echo "<li class='facebook'><a class='ie6fix' href='http://facebook.com/".$k_option['footer']['acc_fb']."'>Facebook</a></li>";
   
   				if($k_option['footer']['acc_tw'] != '')
   				echo "<li class='twitter'><a class='ie6fix' href='http://www.twitter.com/".$k_option['footer']['acc_tw']."'>Twitter</a></li>";
   
   				if($k_option['footer']['acc_fl'] != '')
   				echo "<li class='flickr'><a class='ie6fix' href='http://www.flickr.com/people/".$k_option['footer']['acc_fl']."'>flickr</a></li>";
   
   				?>
   			</ul>
   		</div>
   
   	</div><!--end footer-->
   
   </div>
   <?php wp_footer();
   
   if($k_option['general']['analytics'])
   echo $k_option['general']['analytics'];
   ?>
   </body>
   </html>

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   cheekykev
   Member

   This is the entire contents of the footer.php in the display theme:

   <?php
   $pageinfo = array('full_name' => 'Footer Options', 'optionname'=>'footer', 'child'=>true, 'filename' => basename(__FILE__));

   $options = array (

   array( "type" => "open"),

   array( "type" => "group"),

   array( "name" => "Contact Button Line 1",
   "desc" => "Enter the first line of text to display within your contact button.",
   "id" => "button1",
   "std" => "Contact Form",
   "size" => 20,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "name" => "Contact Button Line 2",
   "desc" => "Enter the second line of text to display within your contact button.",
   "id" => "button2",
   "std" => "get in touch with us",
   "size" => 20,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "name" => "Button Link",
   "desc" => "Select the Page the button should link to",
   "id" => "button_link",
   "type" => "dropdown",
   "subtype" => "page"),

   array( "type" => "group"),

   array( "name" => "Copyright Text",
   "desc" => "Enter your copyright text here",
   "id" => "copyright",
   "std" => "This site uses valid HTML and CSS. All content Copyright © 2010 DISPLAY, Inc",
   "size" => 75,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "type" => "group"),

   array( "name" => "Facebook Account",
   "desc" => "Enter the name of your facebook account to create a small icon link within your footer",
   "id" => "acc_fb",
   "std" => "",
   "size" => 20,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "name" => "Flickr Account",
   "desc" => "Enter the name of your flickr account to create a small icon link within your footer (looks something like this: 34166943@N05 )",
   "id" => "acc_fl",
   "std" => "",
   "size" => 20,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "name" => "Twitter Account",
   "desc" => "Enter the name of your twitter account to create a small icon link within your footer",
   "id" => "acc_tw",
   "std" => "",
   "size" => 20,
   "type" => "text"),

   array( "type" => "group"),

   array( "type" => "close")

   );

   $options_page = new kriesi_option_pages($options, $pageinfo);

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   cheekykev
   Member

   Gosh, I've been looking in Wordpress using appearance ~ editor and the footer.php displays as I mentioned above but when I look at the footer in CPanel is displays as you said. I'm completely confused as to how footer.php can be different between these two interfaces but nevertheless I have it working now. Thanks very much!

   K

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   Chris Beard
   

   Glad I could help :)

   Posted 1 year ago #

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