MistyLook with 2 sidebars
Tadaaam! My first serious modification of theme released for downloads 
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On my sites I use themes created by Sadish Bala because.. they are just great. I have played with them long enough to feel comfortable with (almost) all kind of modifications. Hence I decided not only create MistyLook (I guess the most famous from all) with two sidebars but also make it available for downloads.
I didn’t change much apart from adding extra sidebar and creating new header and profile images. I also changed the way particular elements of the list in sidebar are being displayed – the background is constant, no sidebox for each part of the list. I think it looks better when you have to sidebars side by side.
This version has all features regular MistyLook has such as Page Template for archives, contact and links pages [to use them you need to create new page and assign appropriate template to it ] and co-operation with widget plugins and the newest version of WordPress (2.3).
I will appreciate all kinds of opinion and information on how it works for you and if you have encountered any problems (although I do hope you won’t have any 
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You can download it here or on official MistyLook site. Have fun!
MistyLook with 2 sidebars (97.8 KiB)
31st October 2007 18 comments
Looks nice, it would be nice if it would change into a 1 column theme like your current blog though.
Widziałaś to: http://wpthemes.info/posts/2007/11/05/a-three-column-mistylook-really/ ?
Gratulacje
@ Anirudh
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Tahank you.
Do you mean idea like two sidebars on the home/main page but only one when viewing single post or other page?
Idea is good but I’d prefer then to give people choice via admin panel (as in NigaRila theme I use) whether they want to have one or two sidebars. That requires extra work so I will keep it in mind for future
@Fanatyk
. Dziękuje bardzo.
Oczywiście, że widziałam
I recently found your theme and really like it. I “upgraded” from the original Misty to the two side colmuns, but now my pages do not show up. An error comes up on the browser “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/footbam4/public_html/wp-content/themes/mistylook-2sidebars1/page.php on line 27″
Could you give me some help on fixing this problem?
Thanks. I had to switch back to the original for my visitors sake.
Thanks
Hi Steve,
Have you chanaged ANYTHING in page.php file?
Line 27 contains closing tag for if condition. Do you have starting tag for this condition (line 4)?
I fixed it thanks for the help.
I use the MistyLook theme on blogspot. I did this after using the CSS for the original MistyLook and tweaking a lot of things in the HTML code of my blog on blogger (references to pics on photobucket). I really wanted to go the two-sidebar way, but loved the MistyLook theme very much and hence didn’t do that. Could you please tell me how I could go in for the two-sidebar MistyLook theme on my blogspot blog? That will help a lot of people on blogspot who will have a great theme option. Thanks a ton.
If you just tell me how to go about it, I’ll try to do it on my own. Thanks.
Please drop me a line on my blog to know when you’ve answered this. Thanks.
Hi Abhinav,
Unfortunately 2-sidebars MistyLook requires quite a lot of modifications within style.css (plus few in sidebar.php and functions.php).
. Sorry.
There is a plan to make such version available for other bloging platforms (like blogspot) but speaking honestly I doubt it will be ready this year. It’s very busy time now and I have other priorities
If you can wait some time I will try to do it in January otherwise you have to download Misty Look with 2 sidebars for WP and make changes in style.css by yourself.
Well, I made the changes to my blogspot template and got it working the two sidebar way – one on the left and one on the right. It’s looking gorgeous! Now that I’ve learnt how to write templates for blogger (and enjoying it), I’ll try writing more of them in the future. Thanks for the consideration anyways. Merry Christmas!
Well, it looks pretty good
[what I really do like is background color - it's fantastic shadow of wine red!]. But HTML validator tells me there are 369 errors on your site…
Good luck with next customizations! And Merry Christmas to you!
I’m using MistyLook with 2 Sidebars with some modifications on my site, and I really like it. I’m trying to add Gravatar support on my site. I’m following the instructions at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Gravatars, so I think I have all the code, I’m just not sure exactly where to put it. Could you provide some information on that?
Thanks!
Hi Andrea,
You need to add code to comment.php file somewhere between < li class=" < ? php echo $oddcomment; (...) and < /li >. You may need to try few places to make sure it looks good. Also it may be necessary to make some changes within style.css file.
Good luck!
Hi Kasia!
I’ve downloaded your modified theme. It’s pretty nice. I’d like to use in an italian website, so I’d have to change some things in my language.
Where are terms such as “Blogroll” or “Categories”? I have to change them into “Siti amici” and “Categorie”.
Thank you for helping me.
Sergio
Hi Sergio!
Term *Categories* you have to change in sidebar.php file. Term *Blogroll* you may change in your admin panel » manage » categories.
Good luck!
Hi!
I’ve downloaded the new mistylook with 2 sidebars. I don’t know how to set it up. Is there any tutorial for non techies like me?
Hi Kasia!
Thank you so much for modification of such a great theme. I do have one problem though when I download the Misty 2-Column theme. I can’t get any of my widgets to work in the two sidebars. (I tried making a post about this on the official boards but the darn thing kept logging me out.)
When I drag my widgets over in the Admin -> Presentation ->Sidebar Widgets, they show in the admin panel. But when I refresh my website, the default sidebars remain with no widget information in sight. Then I’m forced to go back to the original Mistylook theme.
Do you know what I may be doing wrong ?