Title: Sidebar Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Sidebar * [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/) * My widgets won’t load in the sidebar, and instead are appearing in the footer. I’ve changed a number of settings and have still been unable to get the widgets to go where they’re supposed to be. Any ideas as to why this is happening? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507592) * Most likely your themes use a widget-capable footer instead of a sidebar. * [awart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/awart/) * (@awart) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507646) * What’s the name of the theme you’re using? * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507653) * I’m using lightword. I’m fairly positive that the widgets are supposed to be in the sidebar, not the footer. * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507742) * I guess it’s not going into the footer, but rather just the body below all my posts. I still cant make sense of it. * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507744) * Oh, the webpage is [http://www.nationaldinonaut.com](http://www.nationaldinonaut.com) * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507745) * You’ve got a bunch of `` tags out of place and that’s what is throwing your sidebar to the footer. Are you using `
` for paragraph breaks? [[Invalid]Markup Validation of nationaldinonaut.com – W3C Markup Validator](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A//www.nationaldinonaut.com/&doctype=Inline&ss=1&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator/1.654). Scroll down in the validation report to see line numbers and source code. Compare your edits to an unedited copy of your theme, too. * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507746) * Thanks for that, Songdogtech. I just imported all of my posts from an old Movable Type blog, and it must just be format issues from there. Do you suspect this is the cause of my problems? * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507747) * Probably. Use the html editor to clean up the code in your posts. Have you edited the theme itself or did you just import content? * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507748) * Even when viewing a sample page with no misplaced
tags it still bumps the sidebar beneath the content. [http://www.nationaldinonaut.com/?p=59](http://www.nationaldinonaut.com/?p=59) Wouldn’t it appear in the proper place if a misplaced tag in an old post were the problem? * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507749) * Have you edited the theme itself? * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507759) * The only code I’ve edited has been to just adjust the background color. I skimmed the list of errors and didn’t see any jump out as structural problems. * [sipragio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sipragio/) * (@sipragio) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507762) * What’s the name of the theme you’re using? * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507763) * Lightword * [akis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akis/) * (@akis) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507782) * Did you modified style.css? Try to replace it with the default one. [http://i49.tinypic.com/iqjtz5.png](http://i49.tinypic.com/iqjtz5.png) * Thread Starter [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * (@phredrick) * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507787) * Good call, Akis. On the test page it appears that everything is loading where it needs to be, and is only out of place on the main page where the
tags are misplaced. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) The topic ‘Sidebar’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [lightword](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lightword/) * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/) * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/) * 15 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [phredrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phredrick/) * Last activity: [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-28/#post-1507787) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics