Changed Themes, Only 3 Widgets Appear??
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@rockpaperdynamite: Nothing to do with previous themes – that bug has been fixed. To add widgets you go to Appearance>Widgets. Your problem is that your sidebar is way down at the bottom, because of bad use of the more tag in some posts:
http://support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Check the note on formatting issues.
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PS: Justed checked and corrected the two or three on the front page that appeared to have that issue, but to no avail, Widgets at the bottom still (hadn’t noticed them there before)
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rockpaperdynamite,
Here you can see your “more -link” is between two < div and < / div > (without the spaces), but it needs to be on a line of its own:
<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/small-front2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-405" title="Front Angle" src="http://rockpaperdynamite.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/small-front2.jpg?w=300&h=199" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p> <p>Due to my lack of need for a car I’m selling my 300zx. <a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/selling-my-car-300zx/#more-398" class="more-link">Keep reading →</a></p> </div>There are more, but here is how you find them:
Go to your blog and open view source. A bunch of code will open in a pop-up window. In Safari or Firefox. On a Mac (must be something equivalent on other operating systems?), commd F for find. Type in the search box, “Keep reading” and the browser will highlight all the instances where those words appear.Then go back and edit your html on each post.
Happy Hunting!
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@rockpaperdynamite: Got another five to correct. The more tag needs to be in a line of its own, not part of a paragraph.
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(Wonder how we’ll ever settle the irreconcilable difference between “on a line of its own” and “in a line of its own”…)
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¿IN-teresting? ON the other hand, I write ON a line in a notebook, and quote a line IN a play…
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I have gone through and put each more tag on its own line in the html editor, like so:
<a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/files/2008/11/small-front2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-405" title="Front Angle" src="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/files/2008/11/small-front2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a> Due to my lack of need for a car I'm selling my 300zx. <!--more--> Details: Make: Nissan Model: 300zx Year: December 1990but the code for the site still shows the resulting code for the tag between a pair of nested div tags:
<div id="post-398" class="post hentry category-other tag-1990 tag-300zx tag-car tag-sale tag-targa tag-turbo"> <h2><a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/selling-my-car-300zx/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Selling My Car - 300zx">Selling My Car - 300zx</a></h2> <h4>Monday, November 3, 2008<!-- by Gareth Pye --> · <a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/selling-my-car-300zx/#comments" title="Comment on Selling My Car - 300zx">1 Comment</a></h4> <div class="entry"> <div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/small-front2.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-405" title="Front Angle" src="http://rockpaperdynamite.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/small-front2.jpg?w=300&h=199" alt="" width="300" height="199" /></a></p> <p>Due to my lack of need for a car I’m selling my 300zx.<br /> <a href="http://rockpaperdynamite.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/selling-my-car-300zx/#more-398" class="more-link">Keep reading →</a></p> </div> </div>I can’t see what is wrong here, how can I remove tags that the html I can edit doesn’t have?
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Nothing wrong with the div tags (they are the post separators): your problem is that the more tag is still within an opening and a closing p tag (in the posts “Selling My Car”, “Bill Hensen”, “PTQ Berlin”, “Racing Simulators” & “PTQ Berlin Warm Up”. You must delete the br tags you have introduced and paste the more tag after the slash-p tags.
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But there aren’t any <p> or </p> tags in the editable html.
I can not find a way to get the tag outside of any <p> tags, I’ve tried putting the several blank lines above and below the <!–more> tag. There are no <p> tags for me to edit and move in the HTML editing.
Is there some black art required to be able to see the implied <p> tags so I can play with them?
Or do I have to edit the post and manually put in all the implied <p> tags so that where I don’t put them they aren’t?
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No and no. Just place the cursor at the end of the paragraph that precedes the more tag and hit return once more, so that you create a blank line between the paragraph and the more tag.
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There’s one more problem in the “PTQ Berlin Warm Up” post. You must remove these:
<div class="md">
this:
<div class="sb">
and these:
</div>Hope you do see those. (I wonder how they got there in the first place. Did you paste from Word?)
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Cut and paste from a website (a web site that has deck lists) so those tags are used by their code.
Why can’t we just get errors for this stuff, input validation is good. Random obscure misbehaving web sites is bad.
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Don’t paste from pre-formatted text! You could be picking up only part of the codes. (Word actually adds irrelevant code.) If you are copying from elsewhere, then paste it directly into the HTML editor so the formating code is stripped out, and then format it yourself. Saves a lot of headaches.
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I tried haiku’s solution (Feb 28 this forum) for the amazing missing links (and other shy widgets) and it worked. Thanks a heap, haiku.
I noticed in wp-options all sorts of stuff that other themes had left there. I guess that helps when you reinstall a theme, but in this case it’s given lots of people lots of headaches.BTW haiku: check yer link – it goes to charming but ancient blog. Or maybe that’s Zen . . .
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