Previous Post Showing in the Widget Sidebar

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  zanetab · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 4:05 am

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  I’m using the Clean Home theme by Mid Mo Design and it’s showing the previous blog post on my widget bar. I previewed a few other themes and this issue is showing on those too, but not on all. I did not make any changes before this happened, and I checked multiple browsers (Chrome, IE, and Firefox).

  Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 4:09 am

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  Yes. Please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog in question
  Typically this is caused by an open HTML tag in one of your posts or in a text widget. You must locate it and close it.

  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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  zanetab · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 4:19 am

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  That worked. Thanks so much for your immediate response!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 14, 2011 at 4:26 am

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  You’re welcome. :)