My footer disappeared and I have no idea why. Help?

I just figured out that I needed to add this code to make paragraph spacing:

p {margin: 0px 15px 15px 15px; }

Now that minor problem is out of the way the footer can be dealt with.

UPDATE: I also went back into the “index.php” file and added some closing “p” tags and <p class=”postmetadata”> in front of some of the php code that is responsible for meta data. The validator tells me I only have 8 errors now. So it seems the <p> tag problem has been completely solved since no <p> errors are showing up in the validator.

Here is my updated code:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id="content">

	<div id="contentpadding">

    	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>

    		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    			<div <?php post_class() ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
    				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

						<div class="date">

    						<?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> <!-- by <?php the_author() ?> -->

						</div>

						<div class="metadata">

          				Posted in <?php the_category(' / ') ?> 

						</div>

						<div class="clear"></div>

    				<?php the_content('read more... &raquo;'); ?>

						<div class="tags">

  						<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ' / ', '<br />'); ?></p>

						</div>

						<div class="comments">

							<p class="postmetadata"><?php comments_popup_link('comment', '1 comment', '% comments'); ?></p> 

						</div>

    		<?php endwhile; ?>

    		<div class="navigation">

    			<div><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>

    			<div><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>

    		</div>

    	<?php else : ?>

    		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>

    		<p class="center">Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>

    		<?php get_search_form(); ?>

    	<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

</div>	

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

thanks viceng. i made that change but saw no change when reloading the page.

i should also mention that the “sidebar” is not showing up either. so the “footer” and “sidebar” are currently M.I.A.

sidebar.php

<div id="sidebar">

	<div id="sidebarpadding">

		<h2>archives</h2>
				<ul>
				<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
				</ul>
			</li>

			<?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>categories</h2>'); ?>

			<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

			<?php } ?>

			<?php endif; ?>

	</div>

</div>

Ok, they moderated out my single.php (where the footer does show up) code so I pastebinned it here:

single.php

And here is the index.php code (where the sidebar and footer do not show):

index.php