How I decrease the size of my calendar in my sidebar (Widget)?

[johnsoncreekwatershedcouncil]

It doesn’t fit in the sidebar. IS there a way to decrease the size?

[Barry]

Hi! I can’t locate the widget within your site – perhaps you could provide a URL where I can see it – but it sounds like a CSS issue.

Try the advice offered up in this post and if that doesn’t work please don’t hesitate to get back to us with a URL where we can see the problem and we’ll see if we can tailor it to your specific site 🙂

[johnsoncreekwatershedcouncil]

Yes well because it’s not working I took it off the page. I’ve added it back now so you can get a good look at it. Let me know if you want to log in to the account if that will help. http://jcwc.org/

[Barry]

OK, I see that now. And have you tried the fix I suggested in my last post yet? It looks like it would largely fit the bill here by removing the extra padding your theme is applying to the table cells (but only for the mini calendar).

[johnsoncreekwatershedcouncil]

I looked through the theme style sheet thoroughly and saw no reference to:
/
.tribe-mini-calendar td,
.tribe-mini-calendar th {
padding: 0;
}

So I tried inserting it randomly into the text in the editor in a few places and it did not change anything. Any additional help?

[Barry]

Yep, you wouldn’t see that code unless you add it first of all – it doesn’t exist by default (in most cases it isn’t needed). Can you take a look at our Themer’s Guide which covers a number of CSS related topics and see if that gets you on track?

Thanks!

[johnsoncreekwatershedcouncil]

I read over that document except I couldn’t get past step one. Step 1 says “Open your theme folder, located at wp-content/themes/your-theme/.” I do not have a section after I select ‘themes’ for my theme. The only place I found to enter any code was in the ‘editor’. IS this what they’re talking about?

[Barry]

I think possibly you’re confusing the theme editor (a part of WordPress, which you could indeed use here if you are very careful) and the file system.

WordPress itself is basically a collection of files and has three primary directories – wp-content, wp-admin and wp-includes. So what that instruction is saying is you would need to locate the theme directory (which normally can be found within the wp-content/themes directory).

You can access the file system either by FTP or, depending on your web host, you may have a graphical file manager you can access. Does that clarify things?

[johnsoncreekwatershedcouncil]

Hi Barry, after speaking with a web consultant, he said our sidebar is too small for your calendar widget and that we should look into getting a new theme – one that has a larger side bar. For now, we’ve decided to go with the list-view instead – but this gives us another issue! The home page list is presenting different information than on other pages – how can this be? IS this the default?

[Barry]

OK, well I think it will in fact fit quite nicely if you were able to add those style rules – but if that’s not possible and you’re happy with the list widget that’s fine.

Regarding the events list widget, it does look to me though like it is functioning as expected:

* I see three events, on Sept 20, 21 and 22 in the calendar http://jcwc.org/events-calendar/2013-09/
* I see nothing between then and now http://jcwc.org/events-calendar/2013-08/
* Your event list widget seems correctly to be listing those three upcoming events http://jcwc.org/

Since we try to stick to one topic per thread (and the above looks in order to me) I’ll go ahead and close this one – but if you do have further concerns and can detail why you think it’s not working definitely do open a new thread and one of the team will be happy to help 🙂

Thanks!

[Support Droid]

This topic has not been active for quite some time and will now be closed.

If you still need assistance please simply open a new topic (linking to this one if necessary)
and one of the team will be only too happy to help.

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