Widget placement

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  melsnattyknits · Member · Nov 10, 2012 at 5:52 am

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  My widgets appear on the bottom of my blog on the right hand side. How do make them appear at the top of my blog (under the header) on the right hand side?
  Blog url: http://melsnattyknits.wordpress.com/

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  dlager · Member · Nov 10, 2012 at 6:41 am

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  your latest post probably has “unclosed HTML tags”.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-suddenly-a-mess-after-posting?replies=4

  follow my directions in my comment. should do the trick.

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  melsnattyknits · Member · Nov 11, 2012 at 12:17 am

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  I tried your solution but my widgets and all boxes, text etc are at the bottom of my posts on the r/h side. They’re difficult to read because they’ve been placed over my background. Any other ideas???

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2012 at 12:25 am

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  Please understand that I am a Volunteer who cannot clean up your blog for you.

  Sidebars 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

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

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2012 at 12:29 am

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  I find this article to be very helpful when working with the Twenty Eleven theme. It clarifies the fact that there is no sidebar on single posts in in Twenty Eleven.

  The theme provides these sidebars so be sure you have placed the widgets in the “Main Sidebar”
  Main Sidebar
  Showcase Sidebar
  Footer Area One
  Footer Area Two
  Footer Area Three
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/
  http://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/

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  melsnattyknits · Member · Nov 11, 2012 at 12:51 am

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  I think I’ve solved the problem….not sure what I did though. Thanks for your help…this is my first blog and I’m struggling trying to set it up.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 11, 2012 at 1:05 am

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  Hooray! It’s perfect now.

  I ♥love♥ your sock creations. Though I haven’t knitted much since I took up blogging, I began knitting when I was 5, I have boxes of wool waiting for me to get to them and I’m drawn to knitting again.