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timethief on "where's my sidebar"

timethief — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:26:27 +0000

You're welcome. :)

mincontro on "where's my sidebar"

mincontro — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:25:24 +0000

I figured it out. The view of the published post wasn't showing the whole site.

Thanks for the responses.

raincoaster on "where's my sidebar"

raincoaster — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:23:06 +0000

We can't really help with a private blog, since we can't see the error.

timethief on "where's my sidebar"

timethief — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:22:39 +0000

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 have been copying and pasting text from elsewhere without using either icon 5 or icon 6 in Row 2 of the visual editor, please see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text

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.)

mincontro on "where's my sidebar"

mincontro — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:21:03 +0000

OK, I've been setting up my site. I just published my first post, though the site is still private. The post looks fine but my sidebar disappeared. Where did it go? Thanks!!