Misplaced Sidebar

  • Resolved jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)


    17 years, 7 months ago

    After installing the theme Newspaper 1.0, the sidebar won’t position properly at the top right on the home page– It’s way down at the bottom of the page.

    If I go to the single post page, the sidebar appears correctely to the right.

    I’ve had the same problem with some other themes I’ve been testing (sfSpring widgets 1.0, for example) but most themes format properly.

    I’ve tested different screen resolutions, and tried an alternate monitor, but that didn’t resolve it. I’ve also viewed it with firefox, and explorer, with the same result

    The Newspaper theme is up on my site now at http://www.jayjerome.com – anybody know why I’m having this problem?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years, 7 months ago

    You have stuff that is too wide to fit into the left side of the page, so it extends over to the right side. This causes the sidebar to be pushed over. Since the combination of the two columns (page) is a fixed width, the sidebar can’t go over any further, and is pushed below the content.

    You have a few possible options:
    1. Increase the width of the page and/or the content divs so that all your posts fit into them.
    2. Add some CSS to let the browser chop your content or post divs to a given width, thus truncating whatever is too wide.
    3. Edit your posts to reduce/remove whatever is too wide for the column.

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    I’ve been playing around with the style sheet in my ‘sandbox’ all morning. I’ve changed all the following, without effect:
    widened the page width from 730 to 830
    narrowed content width from 480 to 380; sidebar width from 230 to 150; I even narrowed the sidebar search width from 130 to 100.

    None of the above changes shifted the sidebar to the proper location.

    If the theme is ‘out-of-the-box’ shouldn’t it be placing the side bar correctly, no matter what’s in my posts?

    Also keep in mind that it’s working correctly at the individual pages, but not on the home page..

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years, 7 months ago

    If the theme is ‘out-of-the-box’ shouldn’t it be placing the side bar correctly, no matter what’s in my posts?

    Not all themes are equal. Theme designers cannot account for everything either.

    Also keep in mind that it’s working correctly at the individual pages, but not on the home page..

    That’s what you think:
    http://www.jayjerome.com/2006/08/01/bad-behavior-2nd-class-tequila/

    Like I said, you have a post that is too wide. That *is* your problem. It’s not just an opinion of mine. 😉

    incertus

    (@incertus)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Another thing that can cause sidebars to drop, which has to be one of the most common calls for help around here, is invalid code. Running yours http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jayjerome.com%2F

    shows two errors, both for open and not closed paragraphs. Both of those paragraphs have a class of MsoNormal which I believe is a Microsoft Word thing. Copy and pasting directly from Word into your blog is going to break something. If you write in Word or another word processor it’s a good idea to copy and paste it into a plain text editor (like notepad) first and then copy and paste that so you don’t get odd bits of formatting and stuff that can break things.

    Thread Starter jayjerome

    (@jayjerome)

    17 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks Otto42–

    It was the Gibson post – soon as I left him on the cutting room floor, the theme formatted properly (if he had guzzled Hefewizen instead of Cazadores Tequila, all of us would have been better off – yes, checked your site, very nice!!)

    And incertus, I’ve taken your advice, installed NoteTab Pro, and will filter future posts thru that.

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