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  • I’ve searched the forum but havn’t found anything that addresses my issue (so forgive me if it was there and I just missed it!).

    I upgraded to wp1.5 and am having issues with the way it’s displaying links (stored within the database). They’re appearing under the body of the posting area rather than on the right hand side where they should be.

    If I comment out the following, everything else that should display in the sidebar does exactly what it should:

    <?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
    <?php get_links_list(); ?>

    They are enclosed in the same <div id="menu"> as everything else, yet the format also looks diffrent from the rest.

    http://whitewomanblackdog.com (it’s not porn, I swear!!)

    I’ve set up a couple other blogs for other people using 1.5 and have had no issues there, so it’s something specific to mine. Any ideas?

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    I guess I should have stated that the issue weems to be related specificly to these calls in the sidebar.php:

    <?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
    <?php get_links_list(); ?>

    If I comment those out, everything works like it should.

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    One more thing to add.

    After looking at the parsed source that IE spits out, I’ve noticed that an <h2> tag is getting thrown around the link catagories. This isn’t in the sidebar.php or style.ccs file.

    Anyone know where this is coming from? (that appears to be what’s tossing my format off)

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    What the heck… while I’m talking to myself, I might as well add that I found and corrected the issue.

    Apparently, they hard coded <H2> tags around the link catagories section of the ‘get_link_lists’ function in links.php.

    While this might be fine for some, I have some extras tossed into my CCS for <H2> tags (I specifiy a HR and a width). This is what tossed my format out the window.

    I removed the <H2>‘s and it’s a beautiful thing again.

    I got the same problem! At least I know I am not alone. At first I was a happy camper, 1.5 looked beautiful. Then zippo, nothing in the right column! After reading your complaint, I found the sidebar text, like you, clear down on the bottom, under everything else.

    My coding skills are minimal. I stumbled thru sidebar.php and looked at the HTML code in IE. All the code seems to be there, as far as my ignorant eyes can tell. But the magic to create two parallel columns is not working.

    I looked at links.php, like you did, but I couldn’t see any H2 tags that would cause a problem. The sidebar formatting in style.css looks ok to me. I did see two empty files: link-update-cache.xml and links-update-cache.xml in wp-content that look suspicious.

    Now, for no apparent reason, after I spent all that time fussing about it, it is working!

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