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Wordpress sidebar at bottom of page

by steveg99
7 replies
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Last night I updated my wordpress website to the latest version, updated my plugins, and wrote and published a new post. A few minutes later, I check my home page and it is messed up. The sidebar is now at the bottom of the page, and the post entries are scattered all over the place!
I've been on the wordpress forum all day looking for answers. I have deleted my new post, deactivated all plugins, tried new themes, and nothing works.
Any ideas?:confused:
Thanks
#bottom #page #sidebar #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author wcardinal
    well - u have an extra tag somewhere. Does it only happen on the homepage?

    If you can disable all plugins and it still does it with the default WP theme - then it must be in the content of the home page. Switch the text editor to html view - clear it out and start over with fresh text.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    In 97.8% of the cases this is caused by an element that is wider than its container div.

    In plain English:
    - if you have a 640px wide content area and you place a 641px picture in it - sidebar down.
    - if you put a 301px wide object in a 300px wide sidebar - sidebar down

    The "thing" can be anything: an image, a long-long link (half meter URL), bad code - pick yours.
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    • Profile picture of the author steveg99
      Thanks very much for the tips guys. I am resizing all my photos right now, and checking for extra tags.
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      • Profile picture of the author visualsindia
        Thanks for posting
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        • Profile picture of the author steveg99
          I have now re-sized all my images, disabled all plugins and looked over all the code that I can see in the editor page and don't see any missing div tags. Validator is ,however, showing quite a few problems.
          One of the issues is "Line 179, column 7: end tag for "div" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified </body>"
          How do I find line 179 on my site? Sorry, this is a newbie question, but I would really like to solve this without having to hire someone. I would like to learn the solution so I can deal with it in the future.
          Thanks,
          Steve
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          • Profile picture of the author steveg99
            Finally found the problem! I went through all the posts again, and found an amazon text link (in a post) that I had previously created, then deleted (I thought). I could only see it in html, not visual however, which was strange. I deleted the link on the html page, and the sidebar problem went away.
            Hope this helps the next person this happens to. It was very frustrating, and there is not much info on google on how to fix this problem.
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