Dusk theme – broken
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Hello, A new WordPress user here. My blog/site is still in the design stage. I am currently using the Dusk theme. I imported postings from my blogger.com site. Then I edited each posting to reduce each to a summary with a “Read more” link. All seemed fine until I reloaded my page. The “right” column of the Dusk theme now resides at the bottom of my page. I have not edited any css.
The only thing that seemed funky was after editing my “initial” post (ie, the one labeled “Banica!” at the bottom of the page), I saved it. Then when I reviewed it, the posting was “rearranged”. The 2nd line was now at the bottom of the posting. The first paragraph after the “Read more” was also at the bottom. Etc. I fixed that I believe. Took a peek at the html and at a very quick glance (I’m very sleepy), it seemed ok.
Any thoughts or better yet, the remedy for my broken Dusk? :)
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This often happens if one or more of your pictures or tables is too wide for the sidebar. Click on “sidebar” in the forum tag cloud and follow the instructions. That should clear it up.
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Thank you! :)
I have a few snapshots in my posts. Most are “small”, but one of the has “medium” sized snapshots. I am going to bet that posting in the problem. I’ll check on it tomorrow.
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It’s likely the read more link. http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/formatting-issues-with-the-more-tag/
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Check this:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/why-is-my-sidebar-at-the-bottom-of-my-posts/
There are three possible causes: overlarge images, or bad use of the more tag, or pasting from Word. In your case it’s the third one – you’ve got lots of junk code in all of your posts.
For each one of your posts go to the visual editor, highlight all the text, click the “Remove Formatting” button, save. And never paste from Word again. If you have to do it, do it via the “Paste as Plain Text” button.
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Thank you all. I will certainly, strip all the gunk out.
For what it is worth, I did not paste from Word. I imported all text from my blog at blogger.com using WordPress’s import functionality. All text at blogger.com was either composed within blogger.com’s software or in Textpad (a text editor).
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Ah, there you go. It’ll be optimized to your old Blogger template, not to your WordPress one.
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All is now well!
Just in case someone else runs afoul of this. After using WordPress’s “Remove formatting” function, the problem was still present. So I scanned thru all the html manually.
The “Remove formatting” cleared most of the formatting, but there was some it did not. Problem areas in my posts seemed to be three in number:
* <div> tags were left embedded
* <span> tags were left embedded
* “style” phrases within an tag were left embeddedMy strong suspicion is that it was the combination of div/span tags that were causing the problem. Though I went ahead and stripped all the inline style phrases as well.
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@tebrock: Thanks – I should have written Word OR other sources that will introduce surplus code.
And I suggested “Remove formatting’ because I didn’t know how experienced you are (e.g. with making sure you wouldn’t lose your images). Otherwise a better, wipe-all-junk, method is highlighting your text in the visual editor, cutting it and pasting it again via the “Paste as Plain Text” button.
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