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timethief on "Home page creating multiple columns"

timethief — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:39:01 +0000

You're welcome.

honoryourspirit on "Home page creating multiple columns"

honoryourspirit — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:37:37 +0000

Thanks for the response. I figured it had to do with the last post so I deleted it and re-published from scratch. That seemed to fix the issue.

Thank you for the quick response!

timethief on "Home page creating multiple columns"

timethief — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:39:15 +0000

Your blog has two issues. The first one is a layout issue with the sidebar displaying below the posts. The reason your sidebar has fallen and is displaying below your posts is either due to copying and pasting or it can also be a result of importing text containing invalid HTML. Typically this is caused by an open HTML tag in one of your posts.

If you want to try some troubleshooting please try this:
Go to Settings > Writing and select “ ___ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically” and then scroll down and click “Save Changes.”

Posts > All Posts, change all your latest posts to Draft, click Update, change them back to Published, click Update again. (You can edit all of them at once: tick the square in front of their titles then select Edit from the Bulk Actions dropdown and click Apply.)

If that does not work see here > http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2012/05/19/sidebar-at-the-bottom-and-related-issues/

As for your second issue, Staff have been introducing “infinite scroll" to themes — a site wide change. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-infinity?replies=137
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/to-infinity-and-beyond/
See here for Disabling Infinite Scroll on your WordPress.com Blog http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/16/disabling-infinite-scroll-on-your-wordpress-com-blog/
Note that "disabling" the feature (when you use footer widgets) simply changes it from loading automatically to loading via the "Load More Posts" tab, and you can't disable that without the Custom Design upgrade.

honoryourspirit on "Home page creating multiple columns"

honoryourspirit — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:35:44 +0000

The home page for my blog is jumbling up stories into multiple columns (not one long column like it normally is). I have no idea how to even check how to fix this.
Blog url: http://honoryourspirit.wordpress.com/

1tess on "Display messed up"

1tess — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:39:59 +0000

You are welcome. Thanks for telling about your success!

szoutewelle on "Display messed up"

szoutewelle — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:15:10 +0000

YES! Issue resolved, thanks 1tess so much for this helpful and clear explanation. I went through x number of posts and finally discovered the one tiny </div> tag that was wreaking havoc with the whole page!

1tess on "Display messed up"

1tess — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:56:31 +0000

The wp Support document has some more information:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/layout-issues/

1tess on "Display messed up"

1tess — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:52:20 +0000

Here is some good advice:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-in-sidebar-sidebar-at-bottom?replies=3

The issue is typically due to extra closing div tags in the HTML of a post. This disrupts the structure of the page on which the problem post shows up (your main page or a category page), so usually it's the rest of the content that will appear messed up.
First you click the title of each post to see which post is the culprit: in your case it's "New winter Cupcake [etc]".
If you are familiar with HTML, you can edit the post and remove the stray div tag. Otherwise you go to Settings > Writing, tick the option "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically", click Save Changes; then edit the post, make any insignificant change (for instance add then remove a space) and click Update.

szoutewelle on "Display messed up"

szoutewelle — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:44:17 +0000

Recently, a title of a previous post has dispaced my sidebar, which you have to now scroll all the way down the page for to find. When I trash the post the title belongs to, the display gets totally messed up- a slide show for a previous post appears superimposed over and blocking out the most recent post. (My theme is Simpla.)

Also affecting recent posts, the type is too small and the line length too long. But if I go to my archives those posts appear normally. And viewing separate posts, even the problem one, via my Dashboard, all is fine.

Could it have something to do with the format of the photos in the slide show, too large maybe? But before I start changing all of those, I thought I'd ask here first.

Any help appreciated.
Sarah

jnsmld56 on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

jnsmld56 — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:39:15 +0000

Thank you everyone! I followed the update from today at the link above and it is fixed!

justpi on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

justpi — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:53:10 +0000

You can now disable I.S. - see Update 7 at the bottom of this post:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/there-we-go-again/

timethief on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

timethief — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:16:37 +0000

@ludusnaturae
Greetings. Yes when it comes to Disabling Infinite Scroll on your WordPress.com Blog choices for MistyLook users and all users of themes that do not have footer widgets are very limited.

ludusnaturae on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

ludusnaturae — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:12:45 +0000

Yes, the "infinite scroll - to infinite and beyond" applied to MistyLook brings this result. As MistyLook don't has footer widgets area, there aren't any way to delete those popups that hide part of your blog.

Greetings, timethief!

timethief on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

timethief — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 21:08:04 +0000

P.S. You may want to read this thread > http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/number-of-posts-on-home-page-3?replies=12

timethief on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

timethief — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:56:33 +0000

Staff introduced "infinte scroll" to the MistyLook theme. Search the forum for "infinite scroll" and you will find quite a lot of discussions on the topic. This is a link to the discussion that started it all http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-infinity?replies=137 and this was further WordPress.com user discussion once the main topic was closed by Staff http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/infinite-scroll-do-we-get-an-opt-out-and-will-this-apply-to-other-themes?replies=166

That being said I don't know if what you are describing is in any way related to infinite scroll. I'm flagging this thread so it will be moved to the Themes Forum where Themes Staff will respond to you.

jnsmld56 on "Theme footer problems - MistyLook"

jnsmld56 — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:50:05 +0000

I've been using the MistyLook theme for my blog for some time, but about a week or so ago the block that says "Blog at WordPress.com" on the left and "Theme: MistyLook by Sadish" on the right pops up in the middle of my posts (and moves down as I scroll down the page). Since this appears to be part of the theme I can't find a way to delete it or at least anchor it to the bottom of the screen or something. Help??? Blog is http://catsandbooks.wordpress.com. Thanks!

timethief on "Read More Button disappeared on homepage of Bueno theme"

timethief — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:03:16 +0000

Thanks for letting us know that disabling infinte scroll worked for you. I see the large bold font is gone now too. :)

iamvii on "Read More Button disappeared on homepage of Bueno theme"

iamvii — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:00:58 +0000

I solved the problem by turning off infinite scrolling in settings>reading

iamvii on "Read More Button disappeared on homepage of Bueno theme"

iamvii — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:54:56 +0000

thanks for your help, i will try out the workaround

timethief on "Read More Button disappeared on homepage of Bueno theme"

timethief — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:39:49 +0000

I'm not sure if this is related to your issue or not. Staff have introduced “infinite scroll” to some themes including Bueno and will be implementing it on all themes that have a suitable structure for infinite scroll. http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-infinity?replies=137

As Bueno is a theme with footer widgets you can use a workaround to regain control over how many posts are displayed on the front page of your blog. If you have a theme with footer widgets all you need to do is install an empty text widget into any footer area for widgets. Once you have done that your number of posts set on the Settings > Reading page will prevail.

Please try that and see if your other issues are rectified when you do.

iamvii on "Read More Button disappeared on homepage of Bueno theme"

iamvii — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:32:30 +0000

Hi,
I just posted a new post on my blog: http://iamvii.wordpress.com, only to realise on my homepage as I scrolled down the read more button that should be on the bottom of the page (after 10 posts) had disappeared. Instead it loads every single one of my posts in a large bold font, the more you scroll the more it loads.
I haven't changed any of the settings, so can't understand why this happened and how I can change it. I had a play around but can't find the cause, does anyone have any suggestions?

lindasfavouriteimages on "Layout Problems"

lindasfavouriteimages — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:06:21 +0000

Thanks

timethief on "Layout Problems"

timethief — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:02:29 +0000

The Structure theme is unique and the articles I will post links to below are exactly what you need:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/introduction-to-structure/
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/on-the-recent-featured-image-issues/

lindasfavouriteimages on "Layout Problems"

lindasfavouriteimages — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:59:35 +0000

Trying to start a blog with images on left and text beside it on the right. I have no problems loading the images, but I am finding it very challenging to add text beside it. There is no "text box" or "side bar". I am using "Structure" as my theme. Maybe it would just be easier if I chose a different theme.

supportbot on "3 column width is not adjusting properly"

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greenflagracingleague on "3 column width is not adjusting properly"

greenflagracingleague — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:25:29 +0000

I am using a theme that is a 3 column layout.
Both sidebars need to be 200 pixels wide.
The main column needs to be 500 pixels wide. (maybe 525)

What I have attempted is going into the theme folder and editing the style.css file.
I can see where sidebar1 is something like 175 pixels wide, but when I change it to 200, Sidebar2 drops down below sidebar1. (instead of staying side-by-side).
Can someone help define why the columns do not stay side-by-side, and end up dropping to the bottom of the page?

site in reference: http://gfrm.host22.com/gfrm/
theme in reference: http://www.ruvenga.com/tag/nascar-theme-wp/

All help is appreciated.
Thanks,
- S

taweinhold on "Removing Comments Box from static web pages"

taweinhold — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:02:04 +0000

To panaghiotisadam: thank you - that was what I was missing.

panaghiotisadam on "Removing Comments Box from static web pages"

panaghiotisadam — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:55:20 +0000

While on that page, click Screen Options (top right) to activate the Discussion module.

taweinhold on "Removing Comments Box from static web pages"

taweinhold — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:47:10 +0000

To auxclass: on Edit Page, I have a checkbox for "show sharing buttons on this post" but no box to turn off Comments.

auxclass on "Removing Comments Box from static web pages"

auxclass — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:28:34 +0000

Edit the Page - page down a bit and there will be a box to turn off the comments for that page - don't know if you can turn off comments on Pages and leave them on for Posts.