Site turned all italics

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  ginballs · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 1:48 am

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  My site went all italics, with the exception of the last post.

  I saw some previous threads regarding a hack on Go Daddy hosted sites involving payday loans. I’m not sure this is the same thing. Excuse my ignorance but with WordPress hosted sites, I don’t believe you can even edit the code, at least I don’t even see where I can view the source.

  If anyone can suggest reasons why this may be happening that would be appreciated. Ginballs.wordpress.com

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 1:54 am

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  No, this hasn’t got anything to do with Godaddy. You have a simple HTML error, probably from copy-pasting or putting bad code in a widget.

  Go to Settings->Writing and select “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML” and save. Then go to the dashboard Posts page, set your most recent 20 posts to Private, then set them Public again. That should fix it. If not, you’ll have to check your text widgets too, and make sure that each open tag is closed.

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  ginballs · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:19 pm

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  Thanks for the reply. I meant if it was the same hack…not really anything to do with Go Daddy.

  Unfortunately that didn’t work. Not sure how to check text widgets. New posts are coming up okay. It was just a sudden switch to italics on prior posts.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:31 pm

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  Hi there,

  Sidebars and widgets in them do not fall to the bottom and display below posts and/or posts do not appear in sidebars

  And, posts don’t suddenly display in italics or in bold lettering unless

  (1) content has been imported into the blog

  (2) the blogger has been copying and pasting content from elsewhere, without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

  (3) or the blogger has copied and pasted invalid HTML into a text widget or left an HTML tag open

  After you go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
  Formatting
  _ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
  “save changes”

  See here for sorting this out > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/sidebar-at-the-bottom-and-related-issues/

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  ginballs · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:51 pm

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  Thanks for the reply.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 5:54 pm

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  Hooray! You fixed it. You’re welcome.

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  sukascrabble · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 6:04 pm

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  @ginballs
  Seems OK now. Are you sure you don’t want to mark this thread as ‘resolved’? :)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 6:06 pm

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  Marking it resolved is useless as there is a forum glitch which means as soon as we post after [resolved] has been implemented it disappears.

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  ginballs · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 7:29 pm

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  So don’t change to resolved?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2014 at 7:38 pm

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  Go ahead but know that doing so is useless if anyone posts after you do.