[Plugin: SidePosts Widget] Sideposts category post appears twice on category page

  • Resolved pet70

    (@pet70)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Developing a new site here: http://76.12.159.43/.

    On the home page Sideposts does exactly what it’s supposed to do (except I would love to have multiple instances of it! I know… version 2). But clicking on the category name in the top menu brings up a page (http://76.12.159.43/category/laugh-lines/) where the posts are displayed twice: once as a standard category, and a second time with the same formatting as on the home page. Can’t say I know whether this is a Sideposts or WordPress issue, but would appreciate feedback as to how this might be fixed or where to find help.

    Also, back on the home page again, the top title in the sideposts area (right column) looks like it’s supposed to work as a category link, yet it leads to a 404… would appreciate help there also as I’m not a PHP programmer. I had changed the permalinks… I assume that’s the problem but I don’t know how to fix it.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sideposts/

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  • Txanny

    (@txanny)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    This is a theme and styling issue. What you see under the regular posts, is your badly formated sidebar.

    Looks like the blog body is not closed before opening the sidebar, so the sidebar appears under the posts and not at the correct right place.

    You need to correct your theme design and styles or look for help with the theme developers.

    To check what I say, set the default WordPress theme to your site and you will see how things appear in their place.

    Thread Starter pet70

    (@pet70)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I did what you said, changing to the default theme. The sidebar looks much the same in the default theme, but the link from the Laughlines title still goes to a 404. 🙁 As you indicated, however, the second appearance of the column in the category page does go away–it stays in the sidebar.

    Thanks for putting me on the right track. If you have any idea why that linked cat title at the top of the sidebar won’t connect properly, please let me know.

    Txanny

    (@txanny)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Look at your permalinks structure. You have something wrong there.

    I’ve seen that it points to 2009/04/10 and this is the archive for April 10, 2009. Your post was written at April 3, 2009

    Look also in the category archives. there the link is also erroneous (in the first archives entry).

    When in doubt if this is a plugin fault, deactivate the plugin, if the problem persists, it not related to it.

    Thread Starter pet70

    (@pet70)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    In case it helps someone else, deleting the category and re-adding it seems to have fixed the problem… thanks for your help!

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