earthlydream,
Yes, Zemanta does some strange things. It is a great concept, but the Zemanta plugin seems to be very unstable. I use it on a few different blogs and continually have to fight with it. At first, I thought maybe there was just a “learning curve” involved. But, it is just the plugin causing problems.
As for your column problems, have you tried de-activating or un-installing the Zemanta plugin to see if that solves the problem. If that doesn’t do the trick, then look closely at the code around where you had placed the pic you described. It only takes one small character out of place to break a wordpress blog. WP is about as forgiving as Internet Explorer.
Don’t mean to sound negative; WP is still a great platform. I would hate to have to go back to building static HTML sites.
Sorry for your problems with Zemanta. In last few months we’ve greatly increased the reliability of our code and how we work within blogs.
Do you still see the problems? Please contact me – jure@zemanta.com with the issues you’re having and I’ll make sure that we fix them ASAP. We do not take breaking blogs lighltly.
Jure Cuhalev, Zemanta
(sorry for late reply, I was unaware of this thread before)
