My left sidebar widgets appear at the top of the page, and the right ones appear at the bottom of the page. I have a Facebook "like" button, a slideshow of photos and a tag cloud. Below is a link to an example (with left widgets inactive...scroll to the bottom to see the right one)

http://globalstudiesrap.colorado.edu/?page_id=726

What code did you put in the header area?

A friend coded it for me so as to conform to UC Boulder's branding. However, this problem is recent. The widgets/sidebars looked fine after the header changes, which makes me think it isn't caused by the changes to the header. But which .php folder(s) would you need to see the coding for?

let me ask again. What code do you have at ATO->Style & edit HEADER AREA->Configure Header Area?

Originally Posted by juggledad

let me ask again. What code do you have at ATO->Style & edit HEADER AREA->Configure Header Area?

%logo %bar2 %image %pages

That's all I have in the configure header area section.

did your friend change the header.php file? I think they did and that is messing up the pages.

I know! That's why I asked which .php file you would need to see. If worse comes to worst and there is no way to have both my unique header and the widgets, I need to maintain the logo area with the search bar because of UC Boulder branding requirements. I'm attaching header.php and bfa_header_config.php

well your friend made a bunch of changes to bfa_Header_config.php. I would download a fresh copy of the theme and unzip it, and upload the fresh copy of bfa_header_config. php

Then I would use the theme options to style the header.

I know he made a bunch of changes. If you know of any theme style options that will let me do what I have done to the header, I would love to hear them but neither him nor I could figure out a way. I must have the .png header that has the CU logo and says "Global Studies Residential Academic Program University of Colorado Boulder" and I need to have the search bar exactly as it is right now. Is there a way to do all that in theme options that we missed before? Thanks.

Sure, you can add html to the 'Configure Header Options' so remove the %logo and replace it with

<div id="logo area">
	<div valign="middle" class="logoarea-logo">
		<a href="http://globalstudiesrap.colorado.edu/">
			<img class="logo" id="mainLogo" src="http://globalstudiesrap.colorado.edu/wp-content/themes/atahualpa/images/banner_white.png" alt="Global Studies RAP" />
		</a>
	</div>
	<div id="searchBox">          
		<div id="culinks">
			<strong>CU:</strong> 
			<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/">Home</a> &bull; 
			<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/">A to Z</a> &bull; 
			<a href="http://www.colorado.edu/">Campus Map</a>
		</div>			            
		<form action="http://www.colorado.edu/search/custom/searchdirect.cgi" method="post">
			<input type="hidden" name="searchtype" value="http://www.colorado.edu/" />
			<input id="cusubmit" type="text" class="text" name="searchstring" placeholder="Search this Site..."/>
			<input id="cusubmitbutton" type="image" src="submit.png" value="Submit" border="0" /> 
		</form>			            
	</div>		
</div>

you do need to use a fresh copy of bfa_header_config. php and you still might need to tweak the positions, but there you go, and now it it is part of the theme options