I seem to be having an issue with the widget. Seems to be bigger than what I can fit on my side bar and is re-arranging my sidebar. I have been trying to change the width of the widget under the template tags folder sp-RecentPosts-widget.php but no success. Any ideas. www.tncnewscentral.com

rearranging sidebar?  what do you mean?  it looks like it fits just fine to me…

you might want to style it since we dont apply any styles since impossible to guess where and how it will be used… for example, I would style to put the text to the right of the avatar…  the options are almost endless with css…

If you look at my page I have this widget all the way at the bottom of the side. After the Widget there is supposed to be a Google Adsense widget but because the Forum widget is bigger than 300px it makes the adsense widget come out of its place and puts it somewhere in the footer. If I remove the Forum Widget it comes back up to where is supposed to be and all is normal on the sidebar.

ah well of course, I dont see an adsense block in m browser… 😉  if I allow them, it still looks good…  I see some really wide gadget ad things in the footer… is that what you mean?

but its not bigger than 300px when I view it…  and the widget itself has no size/width…  it just uses the space allocated by widgets on your site…   the sp widget looks identical in size to all the other widgets…

now, most of your widgets appear in a theme specific div container:

<div id=”text-32″ class=”widget widget_text”>

but not the sp widget… have you specified for the forum widget to use the same theme specific container?  in the widget options the before/after stuff…

Yeah I am pretty lost here, 

but not the sp widget… have you specified for the forum widget to use the same theme specific container?  in the widget options the before/after stuff…

^ Not sure what you mean by that but I do not see and option for this in the widget options. Please point to where I have to go to get this right.

Thanks

sorry if not clear… what I am getting at is that all your other widgets are encased in

<div id=”text-32″ class=”widget widget_text”>

   widget stuff here

</div>

except for the forum…  how are the other widgets getting that?  are they actual widgets or is that special div entered by hand either in text widget or in the wp theme template file????

that may be the root of your issue… 

normally, the widget specification for a theme has the before widget and after widget arguments where that is specified… doesnt seem to be the case with this theme…

so my point was, if entered in text widget or theme template file, you may need to do the same with our widget if the theme widget declaration is incomplete…

Got you, Yeah some of the Widgets are text widgets and I did put a div on there but only to center them. Most of the Widgets are part of the theme so they are already sized to 300px so that is why all the adsense stuff fits perfect. I do have a specific widget which is the app widget and that I am able to change the size so I put the size of the widget to be 300px and fits perfect if I change that than it messes up everything on the side bar like the SPForum Widget is doing and any other widgets after the Forum widget have not choice but to fall off the side bar and go to the bottom of the site.

So how can I style the widget so is at 300px or less.

again, the sp widget is coming out at 300px, just like the rest…

rather than using our widget, you might try this instead inside a text widget:

[sp_recent_posts]

Well by default the widget is given an id of ‘spRecentPostsTag’ – which is applied to either a ‘ul’ or ‘div’ element depending on whether you chose to use list tags. So you should be able to control the width by styling that id.

That seems to have worked but now I have not editing options to change how it looks or even add avatars like on the actual widget.

Mr Papa said
again, the sp widget is coming out at 300px, just like the rest…

rather than using our widget, you might try this instead inside a text widget:

[sp_recent_posts]

That seems to have worked but now I have not editing options to change how it looks or even add avatars like on the actual widget.

yes, but the actual is the same… here are the available options:

    parameters:
        name            description                                type            default
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        tagId            unique id to use for div or list        text            spRecentPostsTag
        tagClass        class to be applied for styling            text            spListTag
        listClass        class to be applied to list item style    text            spListItemTag
        linkClass        class to be applied to link style        text            spLinkTag
        textClass        class to be applied to text labels        text            spTextTag
        avatarClass        class to be applied to avatar            text            spAvatarTag
        listTags        Wrap in <ul> and <li> tags                true/false        true
                        - If false a div will be used
        forumIds        comma delimited list of forum id's        optional
                        - if included results wil be filtered to just these forums
        topicIds        comma delimited list of topic id's        optional        0
                        - if included they will be used to populate the list.
        orderByGroup    order the forums by their parent group    true/false        false
        limit            How many items to show in the list        number            5
        itemOrder        see note below for usage                text            FTUD
        linkScope        see note below for usage                text            'forum'
        beforeForum        text to display before the forum title    text            'Forum: '
        afterForum        text to display after the forum title    text            '<br />'
        beforeTopic        text to display before the topic title    text            'Topic: '
        afterTopic        text to display after the topic title    text            '<br />'
        beforeUser        text to display before user                text            'By: '
        afterUser        text to display after user                text            ''
        beforeDate        text to display before date                text            ' -'
        afterDate        text to display after date                text            ''
        avatarSize        Pixel size of avatar if showing            number            25
        niceDate        Show date as 'nice' date                true/false        true
                        - If not set a normal date will display using the set format
        postTip            Include post content extract on link    true/false        true
        echo            echo content or return content            true/false        true

    itemOrder - description
    =======================
    This parameter controls both which components are displayed and also the order in which they
    are displayed. Use the following codes to construct this parameter. No spaces or other
    characters can be used:

            F    -    Displays the forum name
            T    -    Displays the Topic name
            A    -    Displays the users Avatar
            U    -    Displays the Users display name
            D    -    Displays the date of the post

    If not passed the default is FTUD - which does not include the users Avatar.

    linkScope - description
    =======================
    This parameter controls what items are made into links ('a' tags): The following options
    are available. PLEASE NOTE that the Topic will ALWAYS be formed as a link:

            forum    -    Display the Forum name as a link as well as the Topic
            all        -    Make the entire entry a link to the Topic

    If not passed the default is forum.

    NOTES:    True must be expressed as a 1 and False as a zero
            All text items can include allowed html

thats the same options as the widget… so to add avatars,

[sp_recent_posts itemOrder=’AFTUD’]

Ok this is great, I have added the avatars but cannot change the size of the avatars, how can that be done. I’m sorry believe me I am trying myself to figure the code and trying to add what little bit I know but just cant get it to work.

its all in post #27…  sort of

[sp_recent_posts itemOrder=’AFTUD’ avatarSize=’32’]

for an avatar size of 32px… change it to what you want…

I have been trying that and does not work, won’t change it.