recurring blog display problem
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Earlier this year, I had a problem for a while that my posts were not displaying properly under my Posts tab, which is my default view when coming to my blog. The date, tags, and other info that are usually on the left side of the post were instead locked at the top of the feed, even when new posts were added. Additionally, several posts totally disappeared from the list, although they could still be accessed through search or by navigating to prior or next post after clicking on an individual post. All widgets disappeared, too. This persisted despite trying different browsers, operating systems, service providers, etc., until one day everything displayed properly again. Unfortunately, the problem recurred in recent weeks. I have been trying to wait it out again, but I am getting frustrated. Is there anything I can do to fix this?
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hi,
Your blog is definitely displaying funny:
https://screenshots.firefox.com/A2D8IMRiuDqiNI2y/topofjcsmind.wordpress.comI have tagged modlook for a Staff to help you with this.
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Hi there. Sorry this is happening to you! I don’t see any older forum posts mentioning this issue, but I have seen stuff like this. I’ll try to explain what causes it and how to fix and prevent it.
Somewhere in one of your posts, you’ve got some bad code. Maybe you typed your own HTML, maybe you copied it from something else on the web, or maybe you copied and pasted from a document, but the code for formatting is wrong.
The way to fix it is to find the offending post and remove all of its formatting by cutting and re-pasting as plain text. Here’s how. Save your changes to confirm it worked. If it didn’t, you might not have the right post, so you can revert to get your formatting back. If it did work, you can re-apply formatting using the visual editor.
As a preventative measure, if you’re copying formatted text from a document or a site, it’s not a bad idea to paste as plain text and use the visual editor to format. Or, if you know how to write your own HTML, just be certain you’re checking for syntax problems.
Now, how to find the offending post? If you know when the problem started, that’s your best clue. You can also look at each post one at a time to see whether most of them look normal, and only one looks weird.
So this one is a double clue: it looks normal and it tells you when the problem started:
That post looks just fine individually! But the one right before it does not:
And it’s breaking the other posts if it’s displayed on a page with them.
So, edit that post, remove its formatting, save, and see if that does the trick. I hope that helps!
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Also I took a peek at that post and noticed the HTML includes this at the end:
</div>That closes a section, but there’s no opening section anywhere. So that’s the likely culprit.
You can easily get rid of it by pasting as plain text, and that’s probably the easiest method if you aren’t comfortable with HTML.
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Oh and as one more note: plain text won’t include images or other embeds, but you can re-add them. If you have a more complex post and don’t want to have to reformat the entire thing, let us know here and we’ll see if we can help you spot the bad code and fix it.
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Thank you, kosiew, for tagging Staff and to supermovia for explaining what is going on. As you probably suspected, I don’t understand HTML at all, but realized that both of the posts that resulted in display problems were ones that I had copied quotes. I re-typed the quotes, deleted the originals copied ones, updated, and everything is displaying fine now. Thank you! And now I know never to make that mistake again…
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Perfect, I’m glad you’ve got it! And remember if you’ve got something longer, no need to re-type. Pasting as plain text should work perfectly.
Cheers!
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