displaying more than five posts breaks sidebar

  • shrapnel

    (@shrapnel)


    18 years, 9 months ago

    Greeetings all,

    After upgrading to 2.2 from 2.13, I discovered that my blogroll/etc sidebar had decided to move to the bottom of the page, below all my posts.

    Understandably concerned by this unexpected development, I proceeded to run around like a chicken with its head cut off for a while.

    Poking and prodding my wordpress install, I decided to change the posts displayed from 20 posts to just five.

    So the sidebar now displays OK, but I am limited to just five posts to the page, which really kinda sucks.

    here’s a clue maybe some uber hacker can use: I added a post saying “blog broken, men at work”, and then deleted it later. Somehow that deleted post is still being counted — now I have had to decrease the number of posts shown to just *four* so that the sidebar works OK.

    I hope you’ll agree this really isn’t a super state of affairs. Most appreciative of any suggestions.

    the patient in question may be viewed here:

    http://www.shrapnelfromaloosecannon.com

    thanks, s

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  • Thread Starter shrapnel

    (@shrapnel)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    this strikes me as a very serious upgrade bug. Is there anyone out there with an idea of what is causing this problem?

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    It has nothing to do with the number of posts displayed on a page.
    While your main page is OK now, click on the previous posts link at the bottom… and you will see that you have a badly formatted post – copy/paste from Word or something like that?

    Delete/edit that post and you should be OK even with 22 posts 🙂

    Thread Starter shrapnel

    (@shrapnel)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    hi moshu, thanks for the reply.

    I guess I didn’t make it clear, before the upgrade everything displayed fine, and I have added no new posts since that time.

    Second, as a Linux geek I don’t use Microsoft Word, and I compose all my posts in the code tab, I don’t like the extra html odds and sods wordpress tends to add to my text.

    I have pushed the page through the W3C validator, but I am not sufficiently familiar with the wordpress guts to know where to find the bits and pieces it says are not fully html compliant.

    since, as I said, I have added nothing as far as posts go since several days before the upgrade to 2.2, I think it is reasonable to rule out the possibility of a stray “copy and paste” tag.

    any more ideas???

    thanks!
    s

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    Whatever…
    You have bad code in this post:
    http://www.shrapnelfromaloosecannon.com/2007/05/lawrence-lessig-to-disney-suck-on-this/
    geek or not geek 🙂

    Don’t ask for “more ideas” before checking out what you were told!

    Thread Starter shrapnel

    (@shrapnel)

    18 years, 9 months ago

    moshu,

    then how come that post looked fine for more than month under the older version, and only broke after I upgraded to 2.2?

    s

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