Post showing permanently in my sidebar

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  jimschuster · Member · Sep 17, 2011 at 7:40 pm

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  I have one particular post that is showing permanently in my sidebar and has displaced my sidebar content to the bottom of the page. All posts prior to and after this particular post show up in the body as intended. Any ideas?

  My WordPress page is http://holyfamilysoccer.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2011 at 7:44 pm

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  The reason your sidebar has fallen and is displaying below your posts is either due to copying and pasting or it can also be a result of importing text containing invalid HTML. Typically this is caused by an open HTML tag in one of your posts or in a text widget.

  Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and 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 see if it is back to normal.

  If it’s not, then look for an open HTML tag and close it. Check your blog again and see if it is back to normal. If it’s still “messed up” then open the next post and do the same thing post by post until it goes back to normal.

  If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 17, 2011 at 7:48 pm

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  That’s always due to stray or unclosed html tags in one or more posts. You must first click the title of each post to see which post causes the issue (in your case it’s the post “HFHS Boys Soccer Post 5-0 Win Over Arrupe Jesuit”). If you are not familiar with HTML, go to Settings>Writing, tick the option “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically”, click Save Changes; then edit the problem post (make any insignificant change such as adding then removing a space) and click Update.