I am new to WP and the Atahualpa theme. Both WP and the theme are the latest code (albeit the theme says 3.7.3 is available but I can only seem to find 3.7.1 download which is currently installed).

I've been doing the google searches and I've added in the code in the style/edit footer area of:

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=Footer&cells=2&align=8&align _2=8&before_widget=<div id="%1$s" class="footer-widget %2$s">&after_widget=</div>'); ?>

(just as a side note, I've also seen several posts and have looked at the functions.php file where this could be "permanently" defined)

What I have been trying to find out, is what the full values of the options imply. I get that it makes a "Footer" type code, and it creates two evenly spaced out footer sections. For the moment, I am more interested in what the values allowed for the "align" side. I did try changing align_2 from 8 to 9, and it seemed to change that cell from valign middle and alight left, to valign top and align left.

Again, I apologize for my HTML ignorance, it's never been my programming language, even after 30 years of doing programming. The site I am trying to assist with is under the control of one of your donated members (not sure what their nic is they are using), and its for a breast cancer patient fighting for survival. I am helping out for free, just trying to make things a bit better... any assistance with this particular problem would be deeply appreciated.

Is there a link or spot where all of these options have been defined?

I do have other questions, some of which I've been able to figure out, some not. I don't want to stretch my welcome out, so I will leave those to later on (if I can't find the answers with google)... but knowing and understanding this particular step will make my understanding of how this all works a whole lot better. Thanks kindly in advance.

In my lazyness, I never tested other options for the "align" side, so this is what I've found out from the changes made for the align="value":

align=9 (valign=top align=left)
align=2 (valign=top align=center)
align=3 (valign=top align=right)

align=8 (valign=middle align=left)
align=1 (valign=middle align=center)
align=4 (valign=middle align=right)

align=7 (valign=bottom align=left)
align=5 (valign=bottom align=right)
align=6 (valign=bottom align=center)

The list of other options available and their values... would still be appreicated

Thanks again.

Look in the theme options they are documented

My bad, I didn't look down far enough in the theme "Add New Widget Areas". I was getting confused because I had thought that the links in this area under the documentation (for the three 'style & edit' of the header area, center column, and footer) were broken documentation bugs, that never did anything.

I checked both under FireFox 8 and IE 8, and the only thing I got was an error from IE8 that 'myflowers' was undefined.

Again, I'm not an HTML person, this entire thing is greek to me. I see there is an option that will limit the width of the widget area. At the moment I have 2 defined (which works great) and I am only using the second one right now (pending some bug sorting out for the first one). I don't quite know the proper way to explain this, other than the left panel area has been removed, a few right panel options are in place... and I'd like to "constrain" the two footer areas to be within the central display area rather than stretching all across the bottom. The site was created (not by me) with a Layout Width of 996px so I am going to guess that I would need to supply that as an option within the php code. Would the following work correctly?

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=Footer&width=996px&cells=2&align=1&align_2=3&before_widget=<div id="%1$s" class="footer-widget %2$s">&after_widget=</div>'); ?>

Or is there a more correct way of doing this? I am sorry for being a pest, the site has gone live and I don't want to take a chance of doing something that will crash it (I don't have full access).

I sincerly appreciate the advice. .. (edit.. ops.. now that the site is live, if you wish you can see it here: justbeatitjessica.com)

You don't have to supply a width if you are spanning the whole area and you only have to supply widths for those areas you want smaller or perhaps larger than an evenly divided set. For instance if you have a area that is 996px and you want a

• Two celled widget area
• Left cell 200px wide
• Riight takes up the rest of the width
• Default alignment of 2 which is the content will be at center top of each cell

you would use something like

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=Footer&cells=2&width_1=200&before_widget=<div id="%1$s" class="footer-widget %2$s">&after_widget=</div>'); ?>

If you look at the example code and extrapolate you will get the idea. There are defaults so you don't need to define everything.

Thank you. Span was the word I was looking for earlier, and I guess more than anything, I want to "center" these two footer areas within the span of the center layout area.

Since it would seem that the width option within the php code relates to the width of each of the cells, I bet I would have to encapsule that php statment into a <div> section, and then create some css code that would center that division, with a specified width.

I will use FireFox on the page and open up Firebug, look at the related areas and associated css statements that define those, and see if I can piece together the logic for it. With HTML not being my normal programming language, I tend to make some wrong guesses on things but I hope I am beginning to understand more.

I know the person who the site was created for is deeply grateful for everything people have done to help make this happen.