Title: theme sidebar problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# theme sidebar problems
* [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/)
* Why am I having so many problem with themes in this new version of wordpress.
Everytime I do a new post my left sidebar gets thrown off and ends up at the
bottom of the theme. I wasn’t having this problem before the upgrade. I tired
to change themes and it happens with all the new ones as well. What is going
on?
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* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382615)
* Sounds like you may have HTML mark-up errors — which can cause that kind of problem.
Or it’s a width issue with the sidebar and main section not fitting inside the
containing element.
* Make sure your pages validate and use Firebug to look at the width of the elements.
* [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
* (@alchymyth)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382654)
* [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website)
* please post a link to your site if you would like somebody having a look at it.
* Thread Starter [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382914)
* SITE: [http://www.budgetchic.org](http://www.budgetchic.org)
* The post that is making the sidebar go the bottom of the page is
* [http://budgetchic.org/blog/?p=8469](http://budgetchic.org/blog/?p=8469)
* [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
* (@wpyogi)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382915)
* Did you validate the page – many errors there:
* [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbudgetchic.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbudgetchic.org%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
* Look first at the ones about missing, open, extra or other similar errors related
to tags.
* Thread Starter [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382916)
* Thank you for helping. I will check the errors, but even with all those error
in the 3.4 version my sidebar never moved to the bottom of the page.
* It was only after I updated to 3.5 that I started to have an issue with the sidebar
moving.
* Thread Starter [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382917)
* I think there is another issue with the sidebar beside the errors from validation.
* When you view the [post](http://budgetchic.org/blog/?p=8469) as a single page
the sidebar is where it is supose to be, on the right hand side. When you view
the post from the main page, the sidebar is at the bottom of the page.
* [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
* (@alchymyth)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382918)
* > I think there is another issue with the sidebar beside the errors from validation.
> When you view the post as a single page the sidebar is where it is supose to
> be, on the right hand side.
* this is not a valid argument against validating your site’s code.
* the single post has a lot of errors as well, however sometimes even those severe
errors do not have an effect on the layout of a site;
* [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbudgetchic.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D8469&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fbudgetchic.org%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D8469&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
* the cause (or one of the causes) seems to be in the [‘Trend Obsession: Metal Collars’](http://budgetchic.org/blog/?p=7959)
post.
* the `` tag is not closed properly – possibly a typing error by ommitting
the `/` in the closing tag `
`;
* this is the code form the post content how it is seen in the browser:
* ```
|
```
* Thread Starter [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382919)
* Thank you, you’re right. That fixed it.
* Wow, wordpress code has become way too sensitive. One open tag should not misalign
a sidebar. I will have to check all my post in the Markup Validation Service
from now on.
* Thank you for your help and your time!
* [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
* (@alchymyth)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382920)
* have you tried to tick the box at:
* _**dashboard – settings – writing**: Formatting [ ] WordPress should correct
invalidly nested XHTML automatically _
* Thread Starter [budgetchic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budgetchic/)
* (@budgetchic)
* [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-sidebar-problems/#post-3382921)
* Thank you I checked that option, so let’s see how that works.
* Appreciate it!
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