Title: fixing the positioning
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# fixing the positioning

 *  [samueldiener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samueldiener/)
 * (@samueldiener)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/)
 * Hi,
 * Have my webpage at [http://www.samdiener.com](http://www.samdiener.com).
 * I am having trouble getting the “latest content” at the bottom of the page to
   align properly under everything else. The relative positioning seems to really
   screw everything up. Do you have any idea what I can do to the CSS to make everything
   align properly?
 * Thanks!
 * Sam

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/#post-1183668)
 * You could start by sorting out some of your [validation errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samdiener.com.%2F)
   but, essentially, this isn’t a CSS issue. It’s a markup problem. You have placed
   your “latest content” posts **after** the sidebar instead of within the #mid-
   content block in your template. Not type of CSS positioning is going to solve
   that problem properly. You need to fix the markup first.
 *  Thread Starter [samueldiener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samueldiener/)
 * (@samueldiener)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/#post-1183891)
 * Removed the “digg” plugin, and 26 of the errors went away.
    Let me see what is
   causing the rest of them.
 * Sam
 *  Thread Starter [samueldiener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samueldiener/)
 * (@samueldiener)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/#post-1183903)
 * hmmmm
 * Okay – so I fixed most of them,
    I am having a lot of trouble figuring out the
   rest of these markup errors…. There are 3. Is it possible that they are not in
   the actual code for the page.
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samdiener.com.%2F](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.samdiener.com.%2F)
 * Code for the page producing the content is:
 * >  <?php /* Fusion/digitalnature
   >  Template Name: first page
   >  */ ?> <?php /* Fusion/digitalnature */ ?> <?php
   > get_header(); ?>
   > <!– mid content –>
   >  <div id=”mid-content”> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (
   > have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php if (
   > function_exists(“post_class”)) post_class(); else print ‘class=”post”‘; ?>>
   > <?php if (!get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘hide_title’, true)): ?><h2 class=”title
   > left”><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php endif; ?> <p class=”right edit-post”>
   > <?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’,’fusion’)); ?></p> <div class=”clear”></div>
   > <div class=”entry clearfix”> <?php the_content(__(‘Read the rest of this page»’,‘
   > fusion’)); ?> <?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p class=”postpages”>**‘.
   > __(“Pages:”,”fusion”).’** ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>’, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’));?
   > > </div> </div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> </div> <!– mid content –> </div> 
   > <!– /mid –> <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   > <?php $temp_query = $wp_query; ?>
   >  <?php query_posts(‘showposts=3’); ?>
   > <h2 style=”color:white; font-weight:bold; font-size:10pt”>**Latest Content**
   > </h2>
   >  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?> <div
   > id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php if (function_exists(“post_class”)) post_class();
   > else print ‘class=”post”‘; ?>> <?php if (!get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘hide_title’,
   > true)): ?><h2 class=”title left”><?php the_title(); ?></h2><?php endif; ?> 
   > <p class=”right edit-post”><?php edit_post_link(__(‘Edit’,’fusion’)); ?></p
   > > <div class=”clear”></div> <div class=”entry clearfix”> <?php the_content(
   > __(‘Read the rest of this page »’, ‘fusion’)); ?> <?php wp_link_pages(array(‘
   > before’ => ‘<p class=”postpages”>**‘.__(“Pages:”,”fusion”).’** ‘, ‘after’ =
   > > ‘</p>’, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; 
   > endif; ?> </div> <!– mid content –>
   > <!– /mid –>
   > <?php get_footer(); ?>
 *  Thread Starter [samueldiener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samueldiener/)
 * (@samueldiener)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/#post-1183908)
 * Okay – actually – fixed the markup errors. Now back to the original problem….
   So I need to move the placement of the elements?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fixing-the-positioning/#post-1183930)
 * Yes. The latest content posts were currently **after** the sidebar in the markup/
   template. As far as I can tell, they should have been within the #mid-content
   block.
 * Looks like you got it sorted now. 🙂

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