sidebar dislocation
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Hello, I’ve just set up my first WordPress blog using the Black Letterhead theme. I was playing around with widgets and added blogstats. Then my sidebar was dislocated to the bottom of the page under all the entries (sidebar space is empty). I removed the widget but I can’t get the sidebar info to move back into the sidebar space. So frustrating! Help!
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We need a link to your blog please. Always include a link when asking questions or link your username to your blog as explained in the “8 things to know… ” sticky post (yellow section) at the top of the main forum page.
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First thing: Go to settings > writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then click “save changes.”
Next, open your post called “First time at Barber… ” and make one minor change (such as adding a space somewhere and then deleting it) and then click “update post” and wordpress should automatically correct the missing div tag issue in that post. That should fix the issue for you.
You also have some missing tags in other posts on the main page, so I would suggest doing the same thing with those posts so that the other HTML tag issues can be corrected.
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Thank you! It’s been a long time since I messed with this stuff. For some reason I can’t see HTML even when I set that for the editing view. Stuff I copied and pasted from other sources into wordpress entries got a bit wonky but without being able to see the HTML I couldn’t really tell what was going on. I ran “close tags” at one point but was running blind and probably made things worse instead of better, as I did not read up to see exactly what that would do before i did it! DOH. Again, my thanks.
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You’re welcome.
A suggestion on pasting from other sources: In the lower tool bar in the post editor (accessible by clicking the “kitchen sink” button on the right end of the upper tool bar) are two icons for pasting from other sources. The “paste from Word” icon for pasting things in from MS Word, and the “paste as plain text” icon (for pasting from other sources such as the web). Both operate the same way. Click the icon, paste the stuff into the widow that comes up, and then click the “insert” button and it will strip out all the bad code that is going to mess things up.
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Excellent – again, thanks. If I do any more cutting & pasting I will do it that way. Now that I’ve got the older stuff up, should be fresh content from here on out.
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