Sidebar suddenly lost

  • Hi folks,
    I found a similar problem in other posts, but one guy fixed his problem without explaining how, and another suggested deleting a post to fix the problem… didn’t work so far.

    Here’s the deal. I noticed this morning that my sidebar was suddenly at the bottom of my blog instead of at the side. The blog is at https://eweandme.com/boatblog

    I’ve found that changing templates fixes the problem only sometimes. The standard WordPress template works ok, but many others leave me with my sidebar at the bottom of the page.

    I don’t know very much about css so I’m not sure how to diagnose this.

    any help would be much appreciated.

    Tom

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  • Check this section of your current themes style sheet

    .narrowcolumn {

	float: left;

	padding: 0 0 20px 45px;

	margin: 0px 0 0;

	width: 450px;

	}

.widecolumn {

	padding: 10px 0 20px 0;

	margin: 5px 0 0 150px;

	width: 450px;

	}

    Note the width size in pixels. Also note you say the problem goes away with some themes. That is because these two widths are different in different designs.

    Now you also say your’re not a CSS expert. (few are)

    The problem is not with the css per say but the images you have posted. I didn’t check each one, and to be honest none I looked at broke out of the the 450px limitation.

    However, some are very close and when added to padding and margins they more than likely have caused the problem. This is especially true with IE,although I use FF and the sidebar displays at the bottom at now.

    Go through all your images and resize them to something under say, 400px or better yet 350px.

    That should solve the problem and also allow your index page to load much faster than it does now.

    I’m on DSL and it takes forever to load.

    Oh… and I just noticed this: Your index page displays posts all the way back to Jan 8th.

    That’s way, WAY too much. Cut it down to “X” number of posts or maybe one week.

    Thread Starter tomasaur

    (@tomasaur)

    Thanks a ton! I’ll do all those things. I also found what I think is the culprit for this particular glitch.

    Seems the next to last post had a lot of extra formatting code in it: here’s an example that I copied from the “edit Code” feature of the editor:

    <p align=”left”>The #103 low angle block plane. I use this plane every day. It’s short and gets into tight places.</p>
    <p align=”left”>After you get your surface planed down a little more, hit a few more screws.</p>

    I removed the <p align=”left”> and the </p> tags and everything was wonderful again. Go figure.

    Still, good advice about the length of the index page and size of the pics. I’ll take care of that.
    Tom

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