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1. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So I am working on my website and editing the comments page. I always have such a rough time working on these wordpress blogs, a lot of changing one thing, uploading, checking to see if it worked, so on and so forth.

   Today I am working on the comments page. I am trying to get my sidebar to show up - in fact I want the comments page to look EXACTLY like my home page, just with a comment form below that. Instead, the sidebar isn't being called automatically, so I put in the code calling for the sidebar. But that's showing up below everything. Here you can see:
   http://wanderful.us/magicalmistertour/?p=6

   So my next step was to change the width of the post and comment form, obviously. But that didn't work and the sidebar is still showing up below everything else.

   I am looking through the comments.php coding and I don't see any code for it calling the header or the footer, so obviously that info is somewhere else. And I believe the sidebar will never stay in the correct place because wordpress has already decided the comments page doesn't need it. But I want it there! Where can I edit this code that I cannot edit myself? It's also bothering me that the date and title of the post do not show up the same way they do on the main page here: http://wanderful.us/magicalmistertour/

   Do you see what I mean? Am I crazy? I completely understand what I'm doing now with this comments page, yet I cannot find this hidden code. It's killing me! Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

2. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Also, I was able to get the comments to work really nicely when I designed this page: http://www.stopkatie.com/?p=2951#comments

   So I don't know what the new deal is here? Why won't the sidebar show for this page? What is going on!?!?!?

3. Chrisber
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   You've got a buttload of validation errors, including a large number of missing end tags. Fix those and your sidebar problem will probably take care of itself.

4. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I went to the validation page and found I have 83 error messages for http://wanderful.us/magicalmistertour/

   But they are validating the html that is output, and not really the coding. So I'm not sure how to go about correcting it. It's all out of order. Any tips for this?

5. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Wait a tick. I found out Dreamweaver has a validator. Woo hoo

6. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, was doing that, but that's not working so well. Any other suggestions?

7. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Here's the thing, I haven't really messed around with much of the code from that wordpress theme that came with the page. I haven't taken any endtags out. I don't even know where to start. So if anyone could help here, tell me where to go. I went to the validator online and in dreamweaver, but it doesn't work for validating something like this. In the header file, for instance, it has open div tags, and when I check it in dreamweaver it asks me to close those div tags, but they are open because in the index.php file they are closed. So....

8. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Okay, so I made the layout the default just to see - that is also missing the sidebar. I think on purpose of course: http://wanderful.us/magicalmistertour/?p=6

   SO now my question is, in the coding on the comments page, I do not see the header or footer called yet they are there. And I do not see the title of the post or the post called, but they are there. The only code that you can edit is the way the comment form comes up. How do I edit those properties that are not there?

9. stopkatie
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,
   if you are having a similar problem, I found the answer here. Unfortunately I had to switch back to the default theme (which was actually the one I WAS using, it just had different images) and then ask the same question here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/200005?replies=3

   I think it's a bit obnoxious when you get an answer like Chrisber gave me above. If there were open tags, that's because the default theme had open tags, I actually didn't edit anything but the CSS for the default theme to come up with my own. This was an unhelpful answer I have no doubt you feed to all people who ask you a question like this. But thanks to Mercime for answering me on the same question, different post. Mercime has helped me with 3 separate questions this week, they are the best!!

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