[samnaseri]

I bought the Catch Everest Pro theme yesterday. Now I am trying to change the layout of the home page and footer.

For the home page:
For the Layout Option we have chosen Right Side.
We are using Home Page Featured Content for the home page. Home page would not have any other content rather than Featured Contents. We have 10-12 featured contents which currently are occupying 3 columns. Side bar is being displayed beneath the featured contents. However the desired layout is to have it as a fourth column in the right side of featured contents.

For the footer there is only three Footer Area, so the footer only can be three columns. I wonder if we can make it 4 columns. Also I wish I was able to set proportions of column widths like 2* 2* 2* 3*, so the last column would be a little wider than others.

I know this is a theme designed as it is. However, I have been asked to make this changes after I bought the theme.

[samnaseri]

I would like to clarify my request for home page issue. What I want is guidance on how to bring up sidebar to the right of featured contents. It does not matter if there is three columns of featured contents or two of them.

[Sakin]

@samnaseri: For both of your questions. Sorry to say but this theme is not design that way and don’t have easy options to do that.

For that you need to build child theme and do the customization in functions and css.

[samnaseri]

Thank you for your response.
I am not a PHP programmer. I have not ever used a CMS as well. So it makes it hard for me to trace files and elements of the theme design. Any help would be appreciated.

At least, for the start, I need to know which files and where in the files I need to peek at. I would appreciate it if you just give me some hints on how to make the changes.

Please answer any of the following as much as you believe it would help me fix my issue:

Which codes are rendering the featured contents?
Which CSS framework/technique is being used for column layout?
Which CSS classes are making them in 3 columns?
Is there a container around featured contents that has clear:right on it? If no, then can I put a “float:right” on sidebar to bring it up next to featured contents? If yes how can I apply this style only for home page and not other pages?

I am going to give up on the footer. I will keep it as three columns.

[Sakin]

@samnaseri:

Which codes are rendering the featured contents?
— This is controlled through function catcheverest_homepage_featured_content() which you will find inside th file “catcheverest-functions.php” in “inc” directory of theme.
If you want to edit this, there is simple way. Just build the child theme and then write just copy the function catcheverest_homepage_featured_content() and make the changes as per you need.

Which CSS framework/technique is being used for column layout?
— there is no framework. It’s just plain HTML and CSS.

Which CSS classes are making them in 3 columns?
— you can see the css #featured-post .post and the while content in wrapped with #featured-post

Is there a container around featured contents that has clear:right on it? If no, then can I put a “float:right” on sidebar to bring it up next to featured contents? If yes how can I apply this style only for home page and not other pages?
– there isn’t

[samnaseri]

Ok, that is very great.

Thanks for mentioning ‘build child theme’, I guess that is some WordPress thing for overriding themes in partial. Its like I am going to become a WordPress developer 🙂

I am going to start my work on it. Please let me know if you thought of any technique or smart solution that would help me.

Again thanks for your help.

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