Four-column blog becomes one (Fjords04)
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Hi. For some reason, my four-column blog is now just one. Everything is in the left-hand column.
Anything wrong with the format?
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You wouldn’t happen to be copy-pasting from somewhere elsewhere on the web, or perhaps from Word, would you? That can cause this.
First, check your Settings->General and make sure you’ve selected “WordPress should correct invalidly nested HTML”. Make sure that’s checked and it will prevent/correct lots of problems.
Then, if that doesn’t fix it, set your blog to display one post at a time and scroll back till you find the post where the error has occurred, then check the coding of that post. Most likely there’s a Div tag that’s split by another tag, or an unclosed tag.
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@topofthecircle, according to the W3C XHTML validator, you have 214 errors on your main page. You probably don’t have that many individual errors. One error can cascade down and cause other errors, but these will have to be fixed.
Go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click “save changes.”
Now, starting with your latest post, open it in the editor, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it, and then click “update post.” Check your blog and if it is back to normal, you are golden. If not, open the next post and do the same thing till it goes back to normal.
I would actually suggest doing the above for each post that is on your main page to help clear out as many errors as possible.
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214 errors!
OK, I made changes in taking out a bunch of {div}s from yesterday’s post. It’s good; thaks, everyone.
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OK, you are down to 184 errors. A good number are because you are using uppercase letters in your HTML tags. Uppercase letters in HTML tags are NOT legal within an XHTML document or page, and all wordpress is XHTML. HTML tags must be lowercase only.
You can easily fix the uppercase issue by making the change I suggested above at settings > writing, and in this case open each post in the editor, switch back and forth from the visual to the HTML and back to the visual tab in the editor and then click “update post.” WordPress will turn your tags into lowercase.
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Most of the issues with the uppercase HTML tags seem to be in your text widgets. As an example, the first item in “The field hockey desktop” text widget has code like this:
<A HREF="http://www.topofthecircle.com/FAQfh.html">FAQ's</A>
and it needs to be like this:
<a href="http://www.topofthecircle.com/FAQfh.html">FAQ's</a>You need to edit all your text widgets and change all uppercase tags to lowercase.
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