Why has my sidebar moved to my footer area?
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I’ve had the Sundance theme for a few weeks. After I posted today, my entire sidebar moved to my footer area. I emptied my browser’s cache, but that didn’t work. I looked at my blog with Firefox and the sidebar was still displaying in its entirety at the BOTTOM of the page. I checked each sidebar item on my Widgets page and hit save. That didn’t help either. What do I do?
Blog url: http://sparksinshadow.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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See here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/sidebar-at-the-bottom-and-related-issues/And please search the forums before asking questions: your question has been answered a million times.
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I searched the help pages and the links suggested there first. Then I seached my question in the forums and only one came up that was clearly about my problem, but the person who found her answer didn’t make clear what that answer was or where she found it.
If this problem has been queried a million times, it may be due to problems with the way the search feature operates. Perhaps you can help WordPress address that, since the page your link led to should have been one of the first to come up for me, but wasn’t.
As a computer non-expert, who doesn’t know what a div tag is, I’m amazed that I figured out how to solve my problem from the info in the link you provided. I thank you for including it here, and am grateful you did so despite your obvious aggravation.
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Me too, S.i.s.!
Coming to see YOU to get some help with this issue, as this is the first sign of hope I’ve found inside this huge search engine. Thanks! :) -
When it comes to sidebars falling below the posts the causes are usually two in number (1) copying and pasting content and (2) importing content.
If you have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please do this
Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”
then see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text -
Thanks, timethief. I shall try. I really shall try. I guess that’s what you are encouraging me to do, here, is fix it myself, and I REALLY DO want it fixed badly, so I shall try. With trembling. And tears.
Thanks, so much. -
Okay, tried twice. No changes. What am I doing wrong?
Really, two years I have posted and hardly a booboo. I am doing everything with exactly the same computer, server, and processes.
I am willing to begin pasting the slow way, of course, in the future. WordPress is worth it, to me, but what about past successes? What gives?
And the Settings change did not fix, the recent glitches, as far as I can tell. Does it take some time or something? -
@katharinetrauger: Apparently you didn’t read the post I originally linked to above:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/sidebar-at-the-bottom-and-related-issues/
Enabling the auto-correct option as per timethief’s suggestion won’t do anything by itself: after you do that, you need to edit the problem post, make any minor change, and update. In your case the problem post is “All Children Home School: A True Story”. -
Ha. I fixed it. Surprised you, didn’t I!
http://katharinetrauger.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/note/
Thanks for the opportunity to find the answer throught this forum! :) -
I never could get it to work with the zemanta pics I had used. Dropped z in one of the broken posts, and replaced with a different one from z in another. THEN and ONLY THEN did it work. It is fixed. I also did what time thief said,and will never “control c” again, although that option is there for some reason. Amazing that wp works with macs, which do not use “control c” and does not workwith pc’s, which do, and yet that option is there. Oh well. I am totally content to have figured it out. I did read. I do read. I am a reader. I love to read. English. Alphabet soup is harder, but I try. I persisted. I found a solution that worked. Yay me. :)
I do appreciate all the help every tried to give me. I will continue learning, I am sure and will continue content with what I Iearn. Muchas gracias, Don Panos. Hasta la vista. -
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