You have quite a few validation errors but I think you’re missing a closing </div> in index.php just before the call to <?php get_sidebar();?>.
Thank you very much…I will give that a try when I have access to the files. The validation errors seem to come from pasting code from video directly in a post. I’m not a code expert though…so I’m not sure. I appreciate the help and will let you know if that solves my problem.
Adding a </div> doesn’t seem to fix the problem. The issue does not appear to be theme specific. THESIS does not have a place in the index.php to add the closing tag and adding it to the DEFAULT doesn’t fix it. If the problem occurs across multiple themes, could the issue be in another file?
I checked out your site, try adding this CSS code to the id #sidebars:
position: absolute;
top: 140px;
margin-left: 475px;
That works in Firefox, although cannot vouch for IE. But I think in this case absolute positioning for the sidebar would do it.
I’m having a similar problem, I did what esmi said and it worked for my pages but I can’t get it to work on the categories, i’m at a lost
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276650?replies=2
sorry for thread hijacking…
@bmmulvihill: It is a theme issue.
I don’t seem to be able to fix this. The problem occurs on Thesis, Default, Gridline Lite, and Vertigo 2-Column. How is it possible that the same problem occurs on 3 different themes…and I’ve never touched the code in anyone of them? I’m probably missing something.
I have the same issue but it works ok in firefox and safari. however in IE it drops to the bottom.
try it at http://www.movetofiji.com first in firefox and then in IE.
Another piece of useful information… when I resort to the default sidebar for the theme the sidebar positions correctly. However when I put the updates sign up in — it does not work. It used to work properly with IE but, without making any changes, it stopped working at some unknown point. I don’t normally use IE so I don’t know when it stopped working.
Any help is appreciated. Also any suggestions please assume maximum dumbness. For example I understand F00bars recommendation but would not know exactly where to put that code. I suspect it (absolute position) may not work due to the scrolling background feature in the theme.
I fixed it! By accident.
It seems as though some code from my podbean embeddable player was causing the problem.
I used http://validator.w3.org/ to check my code as esmi pointed out. I began correcting those errors to the best of my ability (I’m like figitrader…maximum dumbness). It brought up errors in the player code.
I compared this code to the exact same post in my local version (I used MAMP)…and for some reason the local version had different code for the player (can’t explain why). I used that code..and boom…fixed. The <embed> tag is no longer there…it’s using “param name”.
I feel it has something to do with the <embed> tag. It was causing an issue? Someone more knowledgeable than I might be able to shed light.
Bottom line…if the problem is occurring on multiple themes…it’s an issue with some coding in other stuff you are putting in your content…like embeddable players and stuff. I think ; ).
Thanks for the input everyone.
Hi BMMulvihill,
Is there any chance you could explain how someone who knows nothing about this stuff. I did use the validator site but it just said that my blog passes and did not show any errors. Of course that is worse than if it found errors I could not correct.
