Problem with text widgets

  • everydaytips

    (@everydaytips)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I am getting desperate because I have spent so much time on this problem.

    My text widgets were working fine. I tried adding a new one yesterday and when I clicked ‘add’, all my text widgets just disappeared. However, the system was acting like they still existed because I went to add one back, it showed 9 widgets, when none were actually displaying on the site itself, and none were appearing on the admin panel where you could actually inactivate it. I was able to get the widget count to align with the actual number of widgets, but it seems to max out at 3 widgets on each sidebar. If I add a fourth widget to the left sidebar for example, all widgets on the right sidebar completely disappear and the fourth widget appears where the next column would be by the left sidebar, if there was a second column. Instead it overlays the title and verbiage of my first post. I have tried this with multiple themes and it is all the same. I have deactivated all my plugins and that did not change anything. Can anyone please help me? If you look at the site right now, it will look fine because I only have 3 widgets on each sidebar.

    website is http://everydaytipsandthoughts.com

    I appreciate any and all input.

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  • flamenco

    (@flamenco)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I think I was right on my first guess. If you paste crud into a text box, you can get all sorts of misery. One of your text widgets has a very messed up attempt at a link. Not only is the link not closed, but there’s a dreaded font tag in there, too. 🙂

    If you fix that, you may fix the whole thing. I have a client who likes to throw all kinds of code into wherever, and he frequently bollixes his whole site.

    I just did a quick HTML validate on your page. 106 errors. I would suggest checking that when things get really crazy.

    This very strange thing appears all over:

    <font size="1"><a>
	</a></font>

    Sorry to give bad news, but this is really borked.

    Good luck, D

    Thread Starter everydaytips

    (@everydaytips)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I actually fixed it while you were typing! So here is what I think happened:

    I added a badge last night and all my text widgets disappeared. I then replaced some of them from the source code. Well, I copied too much and included an extra <div> on one of the widgets I copied. That must have caused a horrible snowball effect. (I think that ‘font size = 1’ may have come from a bad paste on a facebook button.

    So, I got rid of all text widgets and recreated them and reinserted them. All the widgets work just beautiful now. Thank you so much for looking!!!!

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