Primary and secondary sidebars not aligning when adding another widget area

[Elaine Griffin]

Hello,

I have registered a double-width sidebar above my primary and secondary sidebars on this site: http://www.http://retro-food.com/

Curiously, or maybe not so curiously, it sits above the primary sidebar fine, but the secondary sidebar floats on top, unless I add a margin (which I hate). For whatever reason, every time I visit the site, the sidebar is off. I fix it again, and it's off.

I had a problem previously hooking this sidebar without having to also add a negative margin to the content. I put it in every sidebar option, and this has worked the best. Just telling you this as a little background. I have hooked it in genesis_before_content.

Thank you, beautiful community!

Elaine

[Gary Jones]

Since you want the double-width area to span above the primary sidebar (which is in content-sidebar-wrap) and the secondary sidebar wrap (which isn't), then you're either going to need a top margin, some convoluted CSS (in 5 minutes I couldn't charm it all neatly into position), or you need to approach it from the other direction - take a single (primary) sidebar, and split it into two underneath it.

Not sure if the code still works, but http://code.garyjones.co.uk/genesis-split-sidebars should give you a good starting point.

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WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ

[Elaine Griffin]

This worked perfectly, thank you!

[Elaine Griffin]

I am having another problem, now. I need the header background for the large sidebar to cover the entire width. I've tried all sorts of things to do that, and nothing is working!

[Gary Jones]

You mean the Egg Money background bit?

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WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ

[Elaine Griffin]

Yes! Thank you.

[Gary Jones]

The background is added via an image, so you'll need a new (larger size) image, and apply it to either #text-15 h4 {} or #sidebar h4:first {}

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WordPress Engineer, and key contributor the Genesis Framework | @GaryJ

[Elaine Griffin]

Perfect! Thank you!

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