I have been playing around with a feature in K2 which allows for me to create multiple CSS files for me to change the appearance of the blog and choose between styles. I have been hoping to modify it a bit and allow for users to view this blog to a style to their choosing, including different colors and header images.
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Hi Paul, I really like the new look. Just wodnering if you will release a version of deviance without the sidebar??
I’m starting to get the hang of editing existing style sheets, but I’m still playing around with wordpress on my localhost, and I would like to try just the single column, any hints??
I wasn’t planning on releasing the sidebarless deviance… not too many people have expressed interest in it. But I can help you out with getting a single column running. Essentially you need to go to “secondary” in your stylesheet and add “display: none;” and then increase the width of your primary. If you make a post on the K2 forums, I or someone else will be able to elaborate a bit more on this.
Hi Paul. thanks for that, I have now managed to get my site to have only one column, however it had messed up all the pages. If I turn on the archives in K2 it doesn’t go to the page, springs up a 404 error.
When I first started cusomtising I was using your deviance style sheet and editing that, but I have just started a new one for the single column using the style.css already in K2 as a base. Any idea why it may have done this??
Go into every file in K2 and if there is a php call to get the sidebar, delete or comment it out. I had that same problem where it would mess up things like my search page.
im extremly bored so im going through some old posts, was the scheme switcher not an original feature of k2?