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yeah i tried that. this issue is really freaking weird. it’s like i have some secret code somewhere that says IGNORE ANY CODE THAT INSTRUCTS YOU TO CREATE A BORDER. There is nothing I can do to make a border appear in the sidebar. It’s insane.

disregard it is done

sorry my backticks didnt work it is

a:link{
text-decoration: underline;
color: #151B54;
}
a:link { color: #151B54; }
a:visited { color: #151B54; }
.a:hover { color: #151B54; }

`

thank you so so so so much!

yes, the widgets are in the main sidebar widget area. They are just a Facebook Like widget, an Instagram widget, and newsletter sign-up widget. All of them have been working fine, I just must have messed up something..

here is the code i have in my child theme

https://pastebin.com/RY6R4DX2

here is what is in my base theme of twenty twelve:

https://pastebin.com/jv7qtYr1

Can you please let me know if i have edited something inadvertently or if you would advise anything to resolve this? Could it be in the CSS if it is not the sidebar pages? if so, how?

many thanks

There’s no sidebar output because I removed my entire child theme sidebar.php file in order to attempt to only have the widgets showing through the original theme. Only they don’t show up at all, so it looks blank.

I have turned back on my sidebar.php now assuming it is not the issue

Thanks for the markup error link – that is helpful and important although nothing looks related to the absence of widgets. If anyone has ever experienced this, please pass on any info you have — thank u

Tried that. Thanks. No success.

Does anyone else have any idea what on earth could be happening? I have tried removing my child theme file and using the base theme only. That did not work. I cannot make this site show any widgets at all in the sidebar. The two I need are very basic – Facebook and Instagram. This has been an issue for weeks, and I honestly have no idea what code I need to look at to address this.

Thank you for the note, but those are not widgets. I designed those as images, and so that part is coded into the theme in the sidebar file. The widgets which are WordPress plugins are the ones I mean to refer to, and they include three widgets: a facebook like widget, an instagram widget, and a newsletter sign up. They are missing!

this is the code i am using now which is just stupid, but i dont know what i am doing. i just want small preview pics that go to to permalinked post

<?php
  /*
  Template Name: genius
  */
?>

<?php
query_posts('category=video');
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
get_permalink();
the_post_thumbnail();
endwhile;
?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
</div>

any input from anyone?

doesn’t seem to make any difference. same error.

plus the similar code prior to that for the right column lacks a semi colon after ID and results in no error. i even tried adding the semi colon both places to no avail

only error is on line 36 which looks clean to me.

very odd.

ok. i had just just copied your code directly from pastebin when i got that error which may not have been your intention.

here is what i had previously which looks great but the Older Posts link does not work:

https://pastebin.com/Xcyk9fgP

here is your code from pastebin as i used it and which results in the above mentioned syntax error on line 36. (i feel like that error usually means a comma is missing or some such, but i don’t see anything like that in your code.)

https://pastebin.com/sDa0Rn9y

Thanks. Using your code, I come up with this error on line 36:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/content/37/11572437/html/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/index.php on line 36

Line 36 looks fine to me, so I’m stumped.

appreciate the info and have been reading around.

i’m not sure why but switching to the twenty twelve theme temporarily caused my child theme to stop working altogether, so please don’t visit the site to address any q’s. It is no longer working in almost every sense, and I will need to rebuild it.