WordPress MU

I've tried searching so apologies if this is already mentioned elsewhere.

I have a normal wordpress theme that I want to use on a wordpress mu install and most of it works fine. There's one problem though - the widgets are changing their formatting.

In functions.php the widgets have been set to use this format for their layout


'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s column span-4">',
'before_title' => '<div class="clear"><h3 class="widgettitle">',
'after_title' => '</h3></div>',
'after_widget' => '</div>',


but these properties get ignored and everything gets surrounded by list items - which is messing up the styles :(

Is this a known problem or have I done something wrong or what?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Usually you can specify alternate formatting for widgets and it works fine in mu, just liek in regualr WP.

What's this bit for?

<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s column span-4">

specifically the %1 & %2... I'm guessing maybe they aren't getting parsed so it's defaulting.

The bits you picked out (%1 & %2) are used by wordpress to substitute in the id and class within the template. I took these from the Automattic widgets docs - http://automattic.com/code/widgets/api/

The default, specified in wp-includes/widgets.php is

'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

so I don't think that's the problem.

I wonder if it's something else to do with the embed method.

Huh. Never noticed that bit anywhere before.

What theme is it?

ok - I'm very stupid

I hadn't added any widgets to the theme and it was using the default sidebar layout which was formatted differently to the widget definition.

Apologies for wasting your time - I shall crawl back into my hole now

Whups. :D

Eh, it's okay. I've used & abused your custom login plugin for ages now, so we can be "even" if you like.

;D

ha haa - sounds good :)