Sidebar appears at bottom of homepage

beingabipolarmom · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 6:39 pm
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I tried adding a copyright to my page. I tried adding it as a widget to the sidebar and it caused my entire sidebar to slide to the very bottom of my homepage. I removed it, but the items still appear at the bottom of the page even after removing each widget and re-adding them. Ideas?

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dlager · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm
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You probably have an open code tag in the post:
http://strugglingwithbipolar.wordpress.com/2011/07/27/wonderful-week/

first step to correct this would be:
left column Dashboard–>Settings –>Writing.

at “formating” put a check in the box for “WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically “

This might “auto correct” the problem.
panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 7:14 pm
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This will correct the problem, but not by itself: after you check the option (and click Save Changes, of course), you need to edit the problem post (make any insignificant change such as adding then removing a space) and click Update.
beingabipolarmom · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 10:04 pm
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Thank you. It’s all set. This fixed it. It was weird that it just happened today after I made the other change.

Thanks again!
timethief · Member · Aug 6, 2011 at 10:50 pm
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@strugglingwithbipolar
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 so you know how to do this correctly in the future. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
dlager · Member · Aug 7, 2011 at 12:26 am
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@ strugglingwithbipolar —from me.. your welcome and happy blogging.

@Panos, true, I had forgotten, that you would have to update the post for the change to take place. Thats helpful in the future, since this is a common subject in the forum to answer.
I’m just going to bookmark this thread, for the future.
jimenahogrebe · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 1:51 am
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Hi,

Today, when I logged into my blog, the sidebar appeared in the bottom of my homepage. I’m not sure what caused it. I tried to do what you guys described here, but it didn’t work. I thought the last post could be the problem, so I deleted it, but nothing.

More ideas?
timethief · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 1:56 am
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G’evening,
If you are referring to the blog linked to your username which is displaying correctly for me in Firefox 5.0.1 then you have a browser issue. See here for how to proceed > http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050
jimenahogrebe · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 2:29 am
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Thanks for the tip, but it didn’t work. Although I checked in another computer and, as you say, it displays correctly. Another thing I can do with my browser?

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