Main sidebar appears after posts on bottom, uneditable widgets!
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Tarski theme @ http://clarexu.wordpress.com
My main sidebar is showing up at the bottom after all of my posts on the front page. It used to appear as a sidebar until very recently and I’ve been fiddling with all the settings, but nothing seems to bring the sidebar back up.
Another problem presented itself when I tried to switch themes. For example, on Connections theme, my posts would overflow into the sidebar and my sidebar widgets all disappeared. The “main sidebar” widgets were not on the main page and there was no option add them back at Appearance>Widgets. I tried switching back to Tarski, removing all the widgets, and changing the theme again, etc. – but still no “Add” option! It’s like the main sidebar widgets are trapped on the Tarski theme, and as a faux-footer widgets :(
Any suggestions or advice?
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I’ve temporarily fixed it by limiting the posts that show up on the main page to 3. Is there another way?
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Have you looked at the FAQ on why your sidebar is at the bottom? http://faq.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/why-is-my-sidebar-at-the-bottom-of-my-posts/
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Yes, I’ve already edited all the posts so no images are beyond the fixed width and checked for extraneous tags. Sidebar shows up fine with 1 post per page
But over 3 posts, it spills over into the sidebar. Maybe my posts are just too long – do themes have fixed lengths?
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What browser are you using? It looks fine to me using Firefox. (And if this problem is not resolved, you will want to remove the “resolved” info.)
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With limit of 3 posts it looks fine. Browser: Safari.
I’ve set it to 4 so you can see what it looks like. -
Open the post called “A textile addict’s…” in the post editor. Click on the HTML tab in the editor Go to the second paragraph that starts with “My two favorite fabrics…” and at the end of that paragraph, remove the div tag
</div>Save the post and take a look. I think that will fix things for you.Also, go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then save the change. This may keep you out of trouble in the future by correcting messy code. Not saying the messy code was your fault, sometimes it just happens.
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It looks SCREWED UP in my browser, I’m using FireFox. There’s like 2 post horizontally next to each other. And the sidebar is still on the bottom. I have no suggestion’s but I thought I’d let you know what I’m seeing.
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It’s gotta be something in that 4th post. When I click on “older posts” and go to the next page, the sidebar returns to the correct position.
Did you, by any chance, post from Word for that post? Have you tried cleaning up the code in that post?
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I see the problem your images are to big also as you can see from the screen shot
the text is moved over where the side bar should be. > screen shot (sidebar)Are you pasting from MS word ?
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There is no evidence of pasting from word or the web. No strange HTML. The premature ending of the third post div enclosure tag is what I expect is the issue.
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@thesacredpath – Thanks for catching the stray tag! I was convinced it was something in the 4th or 5th post (originally the images were not sized correctly) and missed it.
@vivianpaige – I post from a plaintext editor. Most likely the div tag was a remnant of copy & pasting but not fully removing some of the reference hyperlinks I threw into the WP visual editor. I’ve changed the settings!
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You’re welcome. I expect it could also have been a left over from an image insertion since images are wrapped in div’s. Sometimes they are difficult to find. I used the W3C HTML validation report to see what looked like it was causing the issue and then found it in the HTML of the page and noticed it was prematurely ending the div wrapper for the post.
Having it set to automatically correct nested XHTML should take care of most issues.
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