Title: Template changes when uploading a post
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Template changes when uploading a post

 *  [lisasundberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisasundberg/)
 * (@lisasundberg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/)
 * Hi!
 * There is something really weird going on on [my site](http://shpg.se). I am using
   Oxygen Theme but I have made a few changes to the markup to make the footer fill
   the whole page.
 * The template works fine until I upload a post – when I do that my sidebar (with
   the calendar widget) jumps down and the footer goes back to the original width(
   980px I think).
 * I can add an additional closing div-tag after the sidebar-template to make it
   look fine again. But then, as soon as I _delete_ a post, the problem is there
   again, and I have to remove the div-tag I just added!
 * What have I done wrong? Here is the site: [http://shpg.se](http://shpg.se)

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791373)
 * Please validate your site’s markup.
    [http://validator.w3.org/](http://validator.w3.org/)
 * There might be something wrong in the quote widget because the validator says
   there’s a stray end tag and unclosed one on `q`
 * and the weird one is that it says there is unclosed element `<div id="container"
   >` so please see to it that you got this right or not, probably in the `footer.
   php`.
 * Also this fixed pixel shouldn’t be used at all, it’ll mess the responsiveness
   of site’s layout.
 *     ```
       #sidebar-secondary {
       	width: 250px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [lisasundberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisasundberg/)
 * (@lisasundberg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791381)
 * I have tried to remove the quote widget and to deactivate the quote plugin and
   that did not change anything.
 * I added two closing div-tags to the footer template which made it work until 
   the moment I deleted one post. Then I deleted one of the closing div-tags and
   now it looks good again.
 * Tried to validate but I am not very good at interpreting what the errors mean…:
   S
 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791395)
 * If not already yet, backup your child theme first.
 * Then delete the `footer.php` from your child theme folder so that it will use
   the original one from parent.
 * View the site with and without the quote widget, this will quickly and easily
   rule out if there is a missing unclosed `</div>` tag in your footer or not.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791402)
 * > which made it work until the moment I deleted one post.
 * this points to an unmatched number of opening/closing divs _**within the loop**_.
 * > made a few changes to the markup to make the footer fill the whole page
 * what changes exactly, in what templates?
 * btw:
    it would be helpful to allow troubleshooting if the site would actually
   show the error while this topic is unresolved.
 *  Thread Starter [lisasundberg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisasundberg/)
 * (@lisasundberg)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791503)
 * After many hours of testing around I believe I have figured out what causes the
   problem.
 * Since I don’t want the default secondary feed called “more articles” on my front
   page, I had simply set the following div to display:none.
 *     ```
       <div class="hfeed-more">				
   
       					<?php $args = array( 'post__not_in' => get_option( 'sticky_posts' ), 'posts_per_page' => 12, 'meta_key' => '_oxygen_post_location', 'meta_value' => 'secondary' ); ?>
   
       					<?php $loop = new WP_Query( $args ); ?>
   
       					<?php if ( $loop->have_posts() ) : ?>
   
       						<?php while ( $loop->have_posts() ) : $loop->the_post(); ?>
   
       							<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="<?php hybrid_entry_class(); ?>">
   
       								<h2 class="post-title entry-title">
       									<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
       								</h2>
   
       								<?php echo apply_atomic_shortcode( 'byline', '<div class="byline">' . __( '[entry-published] / by [entry-author] / in [entry-terms taxonomy="category"] [entry-edit-link before=" / "]', 'oxygen' ) . '</div>' ); ?>
   
       							</div><!-- .hentry -->
   
       						<?php endwhile; ?>			
   
       					<?php else : ?>
   
       						<?php get_template_part( 'loop-error' ); // Loads the loop-error.php template. ?>
   
       					<?php endif; ?>				
   
       				</div><!-- .hfeed-more -->
       ```
   
 * I guess some of those rows were necessary to keep the page the way it should 
   be. Does somebody have an idea of how I can remove (or just hide) the secondary
   feed without messing up the code?

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-changes-when-uploading-a-post/#post-3791503)
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