Journalist Theme Sidebar Problem
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I’m using XP and have tried opening my blog in Flock/Firefox/IE6. The sidebar keep shifting to the bottom of the page. I’ve also cleared cache/history etc.
Can you tell me what I can do? Your help will be appreciated. Thanks :)
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Hi there,
I had to remove m the mybloglog widget from my sidebar when using the theme The Journalist to correct this problem. Usually when a sidebar falls to the bottom it’s because we have inserted an image or we have copied and pasted a chunk of text into either the sidebar or the blogging space in a post that’s too big for the space.We do not have a list of the sidebar sizes for the themes that we can use to check. We do have this for the blogging space maximums though http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/how-big-can-my-images-be/
The way I would proceed is to pull the myblolog widget out of the sidebar and see if the problem resolves.
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I’ve looked at your blog and I’m seeing the same thing in Flock. But when I add that theme to my test blog, everything displays as it should.
This would seem to suggest that something in one of your posts is breaking the theme – perhaps one of your images is too large, or something like that. If the problem has only just started, try deleting or reducing the dimensions of the image from your most recent post and see if that helps.
I’m assuming that you have not bought the CSS upgrade and made changes to the CSS of the theme. If you have done that, undo your changes and see if that fixes things.
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{waves to timethief} Didn’t know that about the widget; you learn something new everyday.
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@wolfieb
Provided i know that the images sizes in my posts are not problematic and that I have not copied and pasted any large blocks of text I check widgets first.What I do is -> Presentation -> Widgets and remove them all. The blog then reverts to the “default” display. I then add in widgets one by one and view the blog after each addition. That will isolate the “culprit” if indeed, it is a widget.
If no widget ‘culprit” is found then I know the problem is somewhere in a post, usually, the most recent one.
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Timethief,
My blog used to look fine even with the Mybloglog thingie. This problem has started since two days. But I’ll try to do that now.
Wolfied,
I’ll try to re-size the picture also.
Let’s see – something should work for sure. In any case, thank you both for your help.
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Yes I know and mine did too. However, about 3-4 days ago mybloglog did something that changed the widgets and Barry who is on staff figured this out for me when I had the problem. I simply don’t use the widget now.
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Hey guys, I tried both the suggestions. :( It’s still not working. I’ve removed the MyBlogLog thing AND I re-sized the latest pic- made it really small.
Now what could be the problem? I really love this theme.
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It’s definitely something on that first page; when you click the “older posts” link at the bottom, the next page displays the sidebar correctly.
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Did you try removing all widgets like I described above and adding them back in one at a time? When you remove all widgets the blog will then return to the “default widget display”. If in default widget display the “default” widgets are up in the sidebar where they belong and have not fallen down then you have isolated the problem.
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I ran your blog through the W3C HTML Validator, which highlighted some issues with unclosed tags, closed tags that were never open and the like. I don’t know if this could be causing the error, but it could be. It doesn’t seem like it could be the widgets, if on other pages they are displayed properly.
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My Failed with 26 Errors.
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Timethief,
I have removed all the widgets now. So the sidebar displays the default widgets. This doesn’t seem to work. Something very weird is happening.
Wolfieb,
Thanks for the tip. Never done that before. It shows 81 errors for my blog, almost all of them with the social bookmarking. But I don’t think that that’s the reason for the error either.
Any other solutions that I could try out? :) I appreciate all your help!! =)
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Darn I’m sorry to say that after all the work done on this you will have to contact staff. Volunteers don’t have backend access to blogs and it sounds like yours needs a backend “fix”. If you contact staff using the Support button that is normally available on your Dashboard Monday-Friday, 8 AM – 4PM (Pacific time) make sure you send them the following info:
– your browser
– your browser version
– your FULL blog address (not the name, the real address that begins http:// )
– your FULL username
– your REAL email address that is registered here (N.B. Do not post personal information to the forum)
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Did you try correcting the errors just to make sure? A lot of the ones I saw were just of the undefined alt-tag type, which can be ignored, but I’d be concerned about the unclosed tags, etc, as that sort of error can break the way a page looks.
If correcting those doesn’t fix the problem, and re-setting the widgets to the default doesn’t work, as timethief suggested, then the only other thing I can suggest is that you one-by-one delete the posts that are on that first page until the problem sorts itself out.
When (if) you find the one that is causing the problem, take a close look at the code to see if there is anything obviously wrong with it. Other than that, I’m sorry but I’m out of ideas.
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I’m using the same theme. There is definitely something wrong but I don’t know what it might be. (I looked at the CSS – lots of Digg stuff in there – might the the problem but I’m NOT a CSS expert.)
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Timethief,
thanks! will do that tomorrow.
wolfieb and vivianpaige,
I don’t think that the bookmarking has anything to do with it because I’ve been using this theme right from the day it came out and I’ve used bookmarking before and it has never created a problem. I’m dealing with this sidebar misalignment error only since yesterday.
I think it’s better if I contact support and see what they have to say about it. I don’t feel like deleting all my recent posts.Thanks everyone for all your help!
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Please do not delete your posts. I know this is frustrating and has been a real time waster for you. Perhaps staff have been doing stuff in the backend that have caused your problem.
Hang in there until staff can get to your blog.And, thanks for saying thanks. :)
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I should have made it clear that I wasn’t advocating deleting posts that you hadn’t first backed up so they could be restored.
If others are having issues with this theme, then it would seem that it’s not local to your blog and so the HTML errors I was concerned about are not the culprit. Strange, though, that it’s not effecting everyone that uses the theme.
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I just switched my test blog, which only has one post at the moment and nothing much in the sidebar, to The Journalist, and it validates cleanly, so the underlying template is solid.
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