Fjord4 Format Issue
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In the 4-column fjord theme, my columns suddenly stacked (columns 2, 3, and 4 now appear below blog posts in column 1). When I click a category or tag, the 4 columns “unstack” and the formatting is fine. Did I accidentally change a setting? lia889.wordpress.com
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I expect you have an unclosed tag or a picture that’s too wide for the column. Go through the posts one by one until you locate the problem. Often this is a result of cut and pasting from Word.
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You must always give a link to your blog when asking questions, or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky “8 Things to Know”. We can’t help you more without seeing the blog.
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lia,
The problem is on how the “content” and “sidebars” source code is “served” in the front page.
You see, the source code in your front page look like this:
<div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> ....... ....... <div id="sidebar-1" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> <div id="sidebar-2" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> <div id="sidebar-3" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> </div> </div>Whereas in a single post, the source code looks like this:
<div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> ....... </div> <div id="sidebar-1" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> <div id="sidebar-2" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> <div id="sidebar-3" class="sidebar"> ....... </div> </div>So, the difference is that in the front page source code (bad code), the sidebars are children of the “content” element; whereas in the single page source code (correct code), the sidebars are siblings of the “content” element, thus, they appear unstacked.
This is something that needs to be fixed by wordpress, so I’d suggest you to contact them and referred them to this thread so they can have an idea of what’s going on.
HTH
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What are you talking about, devlog? She just has a more tag between an opening and a closing div tag in her “Carrie Patterson” post.
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How do you see the div tags? I think the link at the bottom is too long, that may be the cause
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@zeynel1: By looking at the source code of the page.
@lia889: Go to Manage>Posts, click “Carrie Patterson”, switch to the HTML editor and move the “more” tag BEFORE the “div” that precedes your “We opted for…” paragraph.
And next time be careful with the more tag:
http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/formatting-issues-with-the-more-tag/Now, you see we can find the blog if its name happens to be your nick; but we’re not supposed to go into that trouble – and it’s not foolproof anyway: sometimes we offer a solution only to be greeted with the response “oh not that blog, the other one!”. So you must always link to the blog in question, as I said before.
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@panghiotisadam, she did have a link in her first post: lia889.wordpress.com Admittedly not a direct link, but it was there.
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Ah yes rosclarke, thanks – and sorry lia, didn’t notice it and went straight to ‘nick maybe blog’…
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what do you mean, what am I talking about?
even if it’s just a “more” tag, that shouldn’t happen. It’s up to the wp people to fix such bugs. What good is to have a more tag if using it will mess up the theme of your choice (or any theme for that matter?)
If removing the more tag fixes this layout problem, the problem itself is not resolved and others will keep on experience such frustration until it’s fixed.
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I don’t think it’s a question of removing the more tag, devblog, it’s just a question of getting the syntax right. Generally, it’s only a problem if you paste from Word (which is well-known for causing all kinds of problems anyway) and then insert the more tag.
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I do understand that, rosclarke. In fact, unless I’m mistaken, it was me who (maybe a year+ ago or so) found out about the more tag problem. However, I still think it would be ideal if the user, especially those who are not tech/code savvy at all, shouldn’t have to go through moving tags around and trying to be “careful”; after all, I believe that most people just want to write and let the software do the rest.
I use the HTML editor only, so obviously I have more control where the HTML elements go, but most people won’t do that. Maybe is just me thinking user friendliness vs user geekiness.
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Yes, I agree it would be nice if there was a way to stop these problems happening. I have no idea how difficult it would be for WP to sort that out. But in general I have no problem just telling people not to cut and paste from Word.
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@ devblog: I wholeheartedly agree, in theory that would be the ideal; but theory is not what lia needed at the moment. Her case was a problem that CAN be fixed by the blogger, so your post was misdirecting her. And this problem is one that wp is well aware of, as the FAQ I linked to proves.
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Thanks for the help- I deleted the more tag (from text written directly into WP, not pasted from word) and the columns jumped back up. Also tried the HTML to reinsert the more tag and columns remained “unstacked.” Maybe makes sense to switch to a less narrow blog column given the length of content so far…and just skip the more tag. Thank you!!
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panaghiotisadam,
Well, to begin with, I wasn’t giving a theoretical solution. I don’t know where in my post, as wrong as it might’ve been, telling her to contact support was “theoretical”.
Yes, I admit that I was giving the wrong solution to her problem because of the fact that I did miss the part of the “more” tag when I first saw the source code; and because of that I thought the problem was similar to one that Vivian had a few months ago where the WP guys HAD to fix the code:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/add-tagline-to-rubric?replies=26#post-154555
Next time, I’ll make sure there’s no “more” tag involved.
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