What happened to the sidebar & archives?

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  maggiemcneill · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 12:56 pm

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  As of this morning, my sidebar and older posts have suddenly switched places; suddenly the old posts are showing in the sidebar space and the sidebar is below the current post. Obviously this looks idiotic. Help!

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 6:02 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 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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  maggiemcneill · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  I eventually figured it out; the embed code provided by YouTube for a video I embedded was bad. I had to use the code from a different video and manually change the address to that of the video with the bad code. After that, everything reverted to normal.

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  timethief · Member · Oct 11, 2014 at 6:23 pm

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  Thanks for letting us know this issue has been resolved.