well you would need to add the styling yourself…  and you can put it anywhere in there…  but it may not appear exactly where you want without the styling… 

for next to the avatar/user logged in, try floating it left with class of spLeft…

Mr Papa said
well you would need to add the styling yourself…  and you can put it anywhere in there…  but it may not appear exactly where you want without the styling… 

for next to the avatar/user logged in, try floating it left with class of spLeft…

Hmmm.. I’m lost in code land..

Anywhere in the header i put it other than before or after the php statement, the whole forum bonks. All that loads is my site header.

Could you give me a little code example please?

you are probably mixing html and php…  please post the code you used, where you want it, including a couple lines before and after the code you inserted…

I appreciate the coding help. I’m totally lost in that department. Below is the code as it was copied from Google.

    <div id=”google_translate_element”></div><script>
function googleTranslateElementInit() {
  new google.translate.TranslateElement({
    pageLanguage: ‘en’
  }, ‘google_translate_element’);
}
</script><script src=”//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit”></script>

This is where it’s ideal position would be.

yup – mixing php and html… in your spHead.php, just change:

        sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spPlainSection');
            sp_LoggedInOutLabel('tagClass=spLabelSmall spLeft', __sp('Logged in as<br /><b>%USERNAME%</b>'), __sp('Please consider registering<br /><b>guest</b>'), __sp('Welcome back <b>%USERNAME%</b><br />Please log in to post'));
            sp_LogInOutButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', __sp('Log In'), __sp('Log Out'), __sp('Log in and log out'));

to

        sp_SectionStart('tagClass=spPlainSection');
            sp_LoggedInOutLabel('tagClass=spLabelSmall spLeft', 'Logged in as<br /><b>%USERNAME%</b>', 'Please consider registering<br /><b>guest</b>', 'Welcome back <b>%USERNAME%</b><br />Please log in to post');
?>
<div id="google_translate_element"></div>
<script>
    function googleTranslateElementInit() {
        new google.translate.TranslateElement({
            pageLanguage: 'en'
            }, 'google_translate_element');
    }
</script>
<script src="//translate.google.com/translate_a/element.js?cb=googleTranslateElementInit"></script>
<?php
            sp_LogInOutButton('tagClass=spButton spRight', 'Log In', 'Log Out', 'Log in and log out');

Now this will put it pretty much flush up against the stuff on the left… but you can style the ‘google_translate_element’ div to push it to the right (ie padding-left)…

Ahhh.. That worked. Thanks..

So these little doodads stop and start the php execution?  ?> <?php

What would the command be to center that translation code?

yes, <?php starts a php code block and ?> ends it…  anything outside of that is just written to the file (and thusly should be html)…

you will have an issue trying to center it since you have it ‘stacked up’ with a bunch of other left or right aligned items… you would need to create sections for the left stuff and right stuff and then add a new section in between with the translate stuff and then use the spCenter class for it…  think that would work, but have not actually tried it…

Just wondering, would this widgets addition in said header file interfere with my SEO?

no it shouldnt…

I think the time it took to load was causing problems adding content to Facebook & Google +1.

Every time i pasted a forum link into either of those sites they never came up with image thumbnails. Removing the widget seemed to cure the problem.

I might try and use a table on the forum page to add the widget and some add this code. Trying to stay away from using a sidebar on the forum page. Let the forum have all the resources.