Pulling My Hair Out — Sidebar Problems

This might give you some pointers (should you not have tried it yet).

I’ve been playing around with settings trying to pinpoint the problem, and I have a bit more info to add:

When I change the “Blog pages show at most” under “Reading Settings” to different numbers, say 2 or 3 or 4, different posts “misbehave”. Posts that looked like they had something wrong will look fine, and normal posts will look screwed up – all in relation to how they pooch the sidebar.

This leads me to believe the problem is not post specific, but maybe in some template code somewhere.

off course,its due to difference in template codes,In recipes’ category template,footer div is outside of the div having id=”page”, while in research category template,footer div is inside the div having id=”page”.

Remove this difference..and problem will be solved..

Still having problems trying to fix what you said I needed to fix. I don’t quite understand what you are saying. Let me explain more….

I am using the Original Premium News template from Woo Themes (free template – no support). The recipe and research categories are the same template, not different. So, I am assuming I need to edit a *.php file somewhere, but I have gone through those files, and I can’t find any obvious div problems (but I am functioning off a sleep deficit right now). There could be an issue with the footer.php since there are 2 extra </div> and not open div’s.

<div class="fix"></div>

	</div><!--/columns -->

	<div id="footer">
		<p><span class="fl"><?php _e('Copyright',woothemes); ?> &copy; <a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a>.</span><span class="fr"><a href="https://www.woothemes.com">Original News Theme</a> <?php _e('by',woothemes); ?> <a href="https://www.woothemes.com" title="WooThemes - Premium WordPress Themes"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/woothemes.png" alt="WooThemes - Premium WordPress Themes" /></a>.</span></p>
	</div><!--/footer -->
</div><!--/page -->
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

I may confused here, but the sidebar problem under the research category seems to be a column related issue (messed up div somewhere), while the problem I see under recipes seems like a different div problem.

I have seem this problem also happen when I click on the “Kaleidoscopic CR Blog” menu category too, but I have to click on older posts to see the error occur. So, the error is pervasive throughout the site, but it doesn’t occur in an obvious predictable fashion.

Sorry if I am misunderstanding your answer, maybe you could be more specific for me? ??

More info. I just changed templates to a similar enough one to see if the problem was still occurring…AND IT WAS!

So this problem occurs with a different template, so the file that is causing all the problems isn’t in the Original Premium News template.

I’m glad I narrowing this down,but sheesh is this getting complicated. Arg. Ideas more than welcome! ??

* Tried deactivating all plug-ins, no fix.
* Tried a re-install under the Tools-Upgrade section.
* I even did a repair database tables, in phpMyAdmin
* Different -yet similar enough to compare- templates have the same problem.

All I can figure is something got pooched on the import from blogger, but I have no idea how to drill down to the problem.

Still searching……

I just tried exporting my wordpress blog from my site, then uploading it to a wordpress.com blog to see if the problem still happens. I saw one person try this and it fixed the problem, then he just exported the wordpress.com info back to his site.

No, it did not fix my problem. My blog still has the same problems when I export it into a wordpress.com blog I created for testing purposes.

So, the problem is somewhere related to the content, although it doesn’t seem post specific. I can trash, unpublish, or edit what I think are problem posts, and then other previously normal looking posts look weird, and the sidebar still goes to the bottom.

Arg.

Ok, here is a weird problem that may be related.

When I imported my blogger site, all the tags from that site were automatically assigned as categories. I did not want these as categories, but as tags. So, I used the category to tag converter option.

After that point the weird stuff stated happening. If I change the name of a tag and there is a category of the same name (even if I delete the tag and category and make new ones) the category name will change to reflect the change in the tag name (For example: if I change the tag “Rant” to “rant”, the category named “Rant” will also change to “rant”.

This DOES NOT happen on my test site. I can change a tag capitalization without the category of the same name changing.

At this point I don’t know what to do except completely wipe the content and re-import and NOT use the category to tag converter.

Please, any ideas before I wipe hours of re-categorization and tagging! I really don’t know what else to do at this point – and this idea isn’t a guarantee….