Side Bar is below articles

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  actseattle · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:28 am

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  Hi,

  I have a new blog with three articles posted. My sidebar is under neath the articles. I have reduced the pics and that still doesn’t seem to help. Is there something I can do to get the side bar back where it’s suppose to be?

  Thanks,

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:31 am

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  Can you give us the direct URL to your blog, starting with http so we can check it out?

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  actseattle · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:34 am

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  I’m sorry I forgot that: it’s http://actseattle.wordpress.com

  thanks.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:37 am

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  I think it’s in your islamo-fascist post where the problem is. Set your blog to display only one post per page (options > reading) and then go through them one at a time to see which is causing the problem The one I mention has some weird elements and HTML in it.

  If you copy and paste something from another program, or from the web, use the “paste as plain text button on the extended tool bar to insert it so that it will pull out all offending code.

  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:38 am

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  Okay:

  A) unless you have the explicit permission of the authors of those articles, you can’t paste them wholesale on your blog. It’s illegal. I have no idea if you have that permission or not, but I thought I’d warn you. Blogs get deleted on sight for that kind of thing.

  B) you’re pasting in code from elsewhere on the web without cleaning it up. That means you’re grabbing all kinds of invisible commands that then act on your blog. It is probably these that are borking your sidebar. Go in to Edit each post and use the “Clean up code” function. You can find that in the visual editor by clicking on the icon on the far right, which gives you the Advanced toolbar. Then use the icon shaped like a broom to clean up the code. In the Code Editor you use “Close Tags”.

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  actseattle · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:38 am

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  thanks, I’ll try that and let oyu know if that works. –act

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  actseattle · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:41 am

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  Thanks for letting me know that raincoaster. I have two blogs and I am taking articles from one of my blogs and placing it on my other blog. I am assuming that’s okay, but let me know if that will be a problem. –act

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:49 am

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  Yes, that’s fine as long as you’re the copyright holder of the articles in question. But FYI you’ll be downgraded in search engines if you duplicate content to any significant degree.

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  actseattle · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 5:57 am

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  It appears that everything ya’all have suggested has worked, so thanks. thanks for the tips on the articles and search engines.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 27, 2008 at 6:03 am

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  I also see that one of the images you have in your sidebar is too wide for the sidebar. That should probably be fixed to. It’s the one about the terrorist attacks.