I recently moved my blog (http://virtuallyondemand.net/blog/) to WP, and am learning my way around. One thing I cannot figure out after spending hours online researching, is how to fix the width on the FB and Twitter boxes in the sidebar to match the width of the boxes above them.

I don’t know a thing about code, so maybe you know of an online resource with step-by-step instructions and screen prints that can walk me through the process of changing it.

I can help you with this – just went to your blog to see what you were talking about

@juleswebb Yippee, it worked! *happy dance* Thank you!

@juleswebb @judymusgrove I am using the Tweet Blender plugin. I went to the plugin area and clicked Edit so I could change the width (the width is too wide on the right). A good 20 files appear on the right ending in .css, .js, .php and so on. I opened a few random files and did a word search for “width” and “margin”, but nothing came up. So I don’t know which file contains the width code.

Anyone know what file I should edit?

@juleswebb No, the box is still too wide on the right. Can you post a screen print of what you see; maybe the box appears normal to you?

@juleswebb I use IE8. It looks fine in the screen print, but when you look at the box compared to the one above it, the right margin is too wide. I’m going to leave it as is for now. I appreciate your help!

@juleswebb I see it on every page (main and individual post pages). I didn’t think about the cache, so I installed the WP Super Cache plugin. I received a warning, though that my blog is writeable and I need to change the file permissions. So I followed the directions, but I don’t have access to the permissions (I use Go Daddy). I sent them a support email asking them to resolve this, so hopefully I will hear from them soon.

Can I still turn on the cache, or should I leave it disabled? I’m adding @kristi-hines to this because she also knows her stuff and uses Go Daddy.

Thank you!

@karenataylor

When I said empty your cache I meant your browser cache on the machine you are viewing the web page in. You’re browser caches (saves) files from web pages you view so that you don’t have download the the same file every time you load a page from that website. Refreshing your page will force (usually) your browser to go grab all the files again, instead of relying on a cached version.

WP Super Cache plugin sets up rules and instructions about what files are to be cached by browsers and for how long. It’s definitely a worth while plugin, but not what I was talking about.  

@jasonwiser said he found the layout issue you described in IE7 and what he suggest should work.

Let us know if you run into any problems

@karenataylor Though you are using IE8 it is possible to have an early version of IE8 which would explain why the layout is presenting similar to IE7. 

I use Google’s chrome for most of my internet browsing.  You might consider trying it out. Because Chrome supports more modern css and html rules than IE you’ll have better visuals and overall user experience while surfing the internet.