[EDIT: All fixed, thanks to Jeremy Clark on the WordPress forums.] 

Okay, as a blogger I’m second to many. This is my first swing at using WordPress and you can probably tell. Unfortunately, something about this theme and/or the classes associated with it have made it even more obvious…

Yesterday I added a text widget called “For Merchants” over on the left. If the problem is still a problem, you’ll see it pretty clearly. One of these boxes is not like the others. One of these boxes is not the same. <— Anybody else remember Sesame Street’s weird conformity song?

Anyway, I wanted to link to AvantLink and Shareasale, two networks that do a pretty decent job as affiliate program solutions providers. I much prefer running indie programs, with teams of coders to do my bidding, but as networks go, these two are worth linking.

Anyway, that’s neither here nor there. This post is about the whacky issue with the textwidget class as displayed in the Talian 1.0 theme. How do I make the text widget not use the textwidget class? If it just acted like a fricking text area for me to type code into, this wouldn’t be an issue, but noooo, some smartypants said “Let’s give it its own class that nobody can touch. That’ll be cool.”

 I know some of you are WordPress geniuses, so any help would be appreciated.