Title: Sidebar Jumping
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sidebar Jumping

 *  [bigfishingshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigfishingshop/)
 * (@bigfishingshop)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-jumping/)
 * As my page loads, the sidebar starts out on the right, and about 5 to 10 seconds
   later it jumps over to the left, where it is supposed to be. This is very annoying,
   and a few of my visitors have complained about it. How can I make the sidebar
   load on the left only?
    Just add dot com to my username to go to my site and 
   watch the sidebar. Why am I still using 2.7? Because my host wants to charge 
   me to upgrade my WP, and I cannot yet afford that. Thanks Scott

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 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-jumping/#post-2292169)
 * Hi Scott,
 * I can tell you it’s to do with the following javascript.
 *     ```
       t = jQuery('#sidebar1').clone(true);
       jQuery('#sidebar1').remove();
       jQuery('td#content').before(t);
       ```
   
 * The above code is, after the page loads, it clones the sidebar, deletes it, and
   then places the clone before the content. That is why the menu looks like it 
   jumps from one side to the other, as that is what the code above is basically
   doing.
 * You could change your theme place the sidebar before the content. As I’m not 
   sure how your theme is constructed, I would not be able to guess where the code
   for this is. Usually it would be in sidebar.php or footer.php. And I would guess
   you could move this to header.php, right before the opening td#content. Again,
   it’s guesswork. If you know someone a bit more familiar with web design, get 
   them to do this for you.
 * After you do the above, you would need to remove the 3 lines of javascript I 
   added above. They are most likely in your footer.php somewhere.
 * Hope this helps!
 * Har
 *  Thread Starter [bigfishingshop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigfishingshop/)
 * (@bigfishingshop)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-jumping/#post-2292175)
 * Har,
    I found the javascript you referred to in my footer.php file! I then looked
   at my index.php file, and it consists almost entirely of code dealing with the
   sidebar. I would copy and paste it here but it is very long. In fact, I found
   code mentioning the sidebar in lots of the theme files, and I am certain that
   I would screw everything up if I tried moving this stuff around. You are right,
   I need help from a pro like yourself. Here is my address: 1001 just kidding St.
   Alabama
 * Thanks so much for your help, at least now I know where the problem originates
   from.
 * Scott
 *  [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * (@harmck)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-jumping/#post-2292183)
 * No worries.
 * I’ll pass my bill on for the help so far to that address. 🙂 Shall I address 
   it to Scott Bigfishingshop?
 * Yeah, I allowed the sidebar could be in a few locations. Hope you can get someone
   to have a look at it, you could probably get them to upgrade WordPress as well.
   Though it may break your theme, so be careful upgrading as well as doing so may
   result in you having to get someone to significantly redevelop your theme, costing
   you even more money.
 * All the best,
    Har

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 * Last reply from: [Harry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/harmck/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-jumping/#post-2292183)
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