Right Sidebar Problem

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  btadams · Member · May 11, 2010 at 3:50 am

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  My searches haven’t found a solution. For some reason my right sidebar is now sitting sitting below all my posts (www.vasug.org) . What did I do?

  Thanks for any help!

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

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 11, 2010 at 4:04 am

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  Sidebar at the bottom is typically due to bad html in one or more posts. When something like that happens, you must first click the title of each post to see which post causes the problem (in your case it’s “Welcome to VaSUG”).
  Next, 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, e.g. add then remove a space) and click Update Post.

  By the way, that post includes a lot of junk code. Copy-pasting from another application maybe?

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  btadams · Member · May 11, 2010 at 5:07 pm

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  THANK YOU!!!!!

  Yes, I did copy/paste from an old web site that someone else created long ago.
  I know there is a lot of junk in there but I’m not enough of a programmer to know what’s junk and what’s not. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

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  timethief · Member · May 11, 2010 at 5:17 pm

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  @btadams
  When copying and pasting use icons number 5 or 6 in Row 2 of the Visual editor. You will get a pop-up box that you can paste the copied text into and using the pop-up will eliminate extraneous code and insert the cleaned up code into your post or page for you.
  5 Paste as Plain Text
  6 Paste from Word
  See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

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  btadams · Member · May 13, 2010 at 2:37 am

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  @timethief

  Thanks. That will definately come in handy!