Column issues

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  elaan · Member · May 10, 2008 at 5:24 pm

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  My blog, graadig.wordpress.com, once had 2 columns. Now there’s only one. They seem to have merged into one.
  I saw from previous questions that this could be b/c of long links etc, but I didn’t find any in my posts.
  How do I get my second column back?

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · May 10, 2008 at 7:56 pm

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  This picture (as adorable as it is) is too big, for the area provided for a blog entry. It stretches over into the sidebar area, which is why your sidebar is being pushed to the bottom. You can either reduce the size of the picture, or wait until you have enough entries, to where it is no longer on the main page.

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · May 10, 2008 at 7:57 pm

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  ooops didn’t leave link for picture:

  the conspiracy

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  elaan · Member · May 10, 2008 at 8:55 pm

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  Thank you!

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  elaan · Member · May 10, 2008 at 9:02 pm

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  Hmm…I resized all my pictures, but still no second column.

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · May 10, 2008 at 9:36 pm

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  Hmmmm, you’re right. It’s definitely one of the entries on the first page. Cuz when you click to go to next page, the sidebar is fine. Did you use any kind of html coding, where you may’ve not closed out the tag?

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  elaan · Member · May 10, 2008 at 11:01 pm

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  I can’t find any open tags. Maybe I just have to post a lot more to see which entry ruined my layout?

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  ellaella · Member · May 10, 2008 at 11:06 pm

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  Set your blog to display only one post at a time and go through them individually till you find the problematic one.

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  thelifeofmarkwhitecotton · Member · May 10, 2008 at 11:21 pm

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  ellaella, I actually hit each entry individually, and the sidebar came up just fine – on each one. But maybe she needs to do it from her end? It’s definitely on the first page, cuz when you get to the next all is well :)

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  vivianpaige · Member · May 11, 2008 at 4:21 am

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  Do what ella said – set the blog to display one entry. (It’s not the same as hitting one post at a time.) Once you do that, you’ll find the offending post. Then edit the post and clean up the code.

  Usually it is an open <div> tag that causes the sidebar to drop to the bottom, particularly on posts that use the <more> tag. (The other cause is too large images, but you’ve ruled that out already.)

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  elaan · Member · May 11, 2008 at 11:41 am

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  Finally! That helped. Must have been some encoding from writing in word.
  Thank you all!