how to make the 2-column theme STICK to the 2-column theme
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hi, i’m not sure why but my blog layout has the links & everything at the bottom instead of at the side of the layout. grr. i didn’t put up many pictures so i don’t think they’d break the layout or anything.. is there any way to make the theme become a 2-column theme again and not a 1-column one?
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I am having the EXACT SAME PROBLEM! My blog is http://hilltownfamilies.wordpress.org and the page layout design I use is “Thirteen by Beccary.” This problem only came about a few days ago. I’ve been using this design for over a year and everything has been fine, until now. Any advise?
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I see everything normal in that blog. The usual causes of a sidebar dropping to the bottom of the page (which is 99/100 times what’s happening here) are:
a) pasting in from Word. Solution: don’t paste from Word. Find offending posts with messy HTML and clean up code
b) pasting from elsewhere on the web. Same solutions.
c) using an image that’s too wide and breaks the theme. Solution: reduce width.Looking at that blog, my guess would be a). Have your authors STOP pasting from Word. Have them paste the plain text in there and add images and formatting later or use an offline blog editor like blogdesk or ecto or windows live writer.
To fix it: set the blog to display one post at a time. Then, click back through the main blog page post by post until you find the offending post. Edit it, and click on the brush icon, to clean up the code. This should fix it.
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You said elsewhere you format all your own HTML. Then you have an unclosed tag somewhere messing you up. The Clean Code icon should take care of it.
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Thanks for your prompt reply.
I should have mentioned that the first half of my side bar looks fine … but scroll all the way down to the bottom and you will see the second half off all my sidebar links and photos as a big mess at the bottom. This all occured recently without any prompting on my part.
Regarding my blog entries, I don’t typically past from Word, I normally do as you advise. The solution to fix it won’t work for it goes back all the way to the first entry … over 500 entries ago! There seems to have been some recent change with WordPress that has made half of my sidebar widgets be all scrambled at the bottom of my page (as well as add smiley faces to any previous post where I had previously typed in 08).
I’m at a loss as what to do!
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You’re right; it looks like your sidebar from the Search box on down has lost the ability to Word Wrap, so things are too wide and it’s throwing everything out of whack.
I would play with the widgets and take out the Flickr for now (some erratic problems have been reported recently, though nothing like this) and see if that helps. Change the order, particularly of the Search.
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The Clean Code icon in the Visual editor is shaped like a small broom. It’s the same as “Close Tags” in the HTML editor.
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I removed flickr and that didn’t seem to work. I’ll keep fiddling around with it and see if anything happens. Thanks!
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Hi guys, having the same issue with http://theraffishdandy.wordpress.com/ and I’m using ChaoticSoul. As an absolute novice, I’d appreciate any guidance.
I think I’ve fixed anything that was mistakenly pasted from Word by removing all formatting and redoing it but as there are no pictures in the body of the text I figure that’s where the problem might lie.
Thanks a lot in advance.
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I still haven’t had any luck.
Is there a chance that this problem could be on the wordpress program side, not the blogger’s side? Was something recently changed with WordPress programing? From what I can tell this problem showed up without a connection to something I was posting on my site, but I’m not exactly clear.
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I’m beginning to wonder that too. I spent ours removing all formatting and replacing it, removing the custom header and replacing it. Not sure what else I could try now.
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Take a look at the validation report as it is saying that you have a lot of open tags. Pay particular attention where it says, “end tag for “xx” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified”
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@theraffishdandy, as above, check the validation report below and take care of the missing ending tags.
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Sorry to be a pain guys, I’m an absolute novice at this.
Firstly, many thanks for the help.
My remaining problem (having identified where the missing bits of code are) is accessing it to change. For example, the first error appears in the coding for the “Continue reading…” bit on my first post and I don’t know how to amend that.
I presume I’m not doing something obvious and would be grateful for any help.
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