Title: Wandering widget Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Wandering widget * [Powerful1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powerful1/) * (@powerful1) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/) * I have a widget that is showing up in the wrong place on **some** of my pages, but not all. * I am not sure what I am missing, but I bet it is obvious. * [http://www.hollywood.kathleensharp.com/directors/](http://www.hollywood.kathleensharp.com/directors/) * Thanks Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283031) * start by fixing the validation errors; [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywood.kathleensharp.com%2Fdirectors%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hollywood.kathleensharp.com%2Fdirectors%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0) * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website](http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website) * there is some code before the `` tag; some nested html commenting; etc * Thread Starter [Powerful1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powerful1/) * (@powerful1) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283048) * Sorry, I cannot figure out what the errors are refering to. Any tips on them would be greatly appreciated. * It says I am calling a body tag, but I only see one place where I am calling the tag. * Any other ideas are greatly appreciated. * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283049) * > Any other ideas are greatly appreciated. * there are no other ideas at this stage; * as long as those validation errors exist, there is no point of looking for any other reasons of the ‘wandering’ widget. * the ‘body’ tag error refers to the fact that there is some html code before the one tag; * check in all your templates (possibly in header.php) where the code section starting with `

` and ending with `

``` * Thread Starter [Powerful1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/powerful1/) * (@powerful1) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283051) * It was the comment file. * Well played. Not sure why it only affected some pages. But, now I need a method to turn off the comments. I know there is meant to be a basic way to do this, but I don’t see it. * I am clearly missing the obvious. Can you share with me a method to disable comments alchymyth? * thanks * [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * (@alchymyth) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283052) * you can turn comments off, by going to: * – _**dashboard – settings – discussion**_ – untick ‘Allow people to post comments on new articles’ (will only take effect for posts and pages created after the changes) * – _**dashboard – posts – all posts**_ – _quickedit _below each post title; _untick_‘ allow comments’ (the same for pages) * – remove the code `` from single.php, page.php, image.php, and /page-templates/full-width.php (in the case of Twenty Twelve) Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Wandering widget’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 5 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wandering-widget/#post-3283052) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics