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  • Admin panel > options > Reading.

    At the top you set the number os posts per page

    The long titles (remember my titles are images) I refered to were my example of the same problem I encountered on my blog.

    Forget I mentioned it if you are confused.

    EDIT: I forgot that you had changed the entire width of your content section. the codes below are from the original theme. Whoever changed your CSS to the wider design has probably also added errors that need correcting. The basic idea below is still valid for your wider version.

    Each section of your blog is set at a certain width. The content and the sidebar together is 750px wide, as seen in this code from your style sheet:
    #wrapper {
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 750px;
    background-color: #FFF;
    text-align: left;
    }

    Your content section is 520px wide plus some extra, as seen in this bit of code
    #content {
    float: left;
    padding: 0 20px;
    width: 520px;
    voice-family: ""}"";
    voice-family: inherit;
    width: 480px;
    }
    html>body #content {
    width: 480px;
    }

    This is the code for your sidebar:

    #sidebar {
    float: left;
    padding: 1.8em 20px 0 20px;
    width: 230px;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    voice-family: ""}"";
    voice-family: inherit;

    width: 190px;
    }
    html>body #sidebar {
    width: 190px;

    }

    So what you end up with is a sidebar that is 230px wide plus the content width of 520px equals 750px the total width of your display.

    If anything goes over that 750px total width your screwed and your display will shift the sidebar to the bottom of the page. You may feel confused becaused your images arn’t 230px wide or over 520px wide in the content but IT DOES make a difference.

    In addition is the advice davidchait has given you. A page with a lot of validation errors will creat so many problems all other efforts to fix the sidebar may be futile.

    I would be willing to bet, I haven’t looked, that the css you have for floating text around images are part of the problem. Do a search here, there are a few threads that give the correct code for wrapping text.

    The length of the links shouldn’t create the problem. What may be is the width of the image plus the wigth of your text in the post.

    Here is an example when I had a similar problem. I use images to replace each posts title (with this <a href=”http://www.coldforged.org/archives/2004/11/11/image-replacement-for-entry-titles/
    “>plugin). I posted an article and used a rather long title for it.

    Because the title was wider than the width of the content section as set in the CSS it forced the sidebar to display at the bottom of the page in IE6, the display was normal in Firefox.

    Take that post you linked to and either make the image smaller or delete it and see if the problem clears.

    Exactly that. I use the same theme but it has been modified from what you have.

    As I mentioned, it also may be some of the longer named links you have in the sidebar, although I still believe its something like an image.

    Try this. Save your sidebar.php template as you have it now (either place it on your server or download it to your home box)

    Then replace it with the original from the theme download.

    If your sidebar display returns to normal there is little doubt it’s something you added to it.

    UPDATE: I was just checking your site again and a light bulb went off because I opened your comment/individual page on the B Walters entry. The side bar displayed correctly.

    Two things, first check that large FireFox image on your main page. It may be the problem.

    Secondly it also may be one of the images you have posted in an entry. Call up each entry currently displayed on your index page as if you were going to comment on it. If one of them displays the sidebar incorrectly and has an image in it you found your problem.

    Updating how? Month to month? Day to day?

    And how about a link? Without that no one will be very inclined to help.

    Check the width of all the content you have added to the sidebar. That is deliniated in this section of your CSS:

    #sidebar {
    float: left;
    padding: 1.8em 20px 0 20px;
    width: 230px;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    voice-family: "\"}\"";
    voice-family: inherit;

    width: 190px;
    }

    Anything you add to the sidebar wider than 230px’s (in some cases 190px’s) will break the format. That may include some of your links that are very long. The biggest offender is the large red colored img. It is way too large and most probably one of the problems.

    BTW I use a variation of , if you would like to compare the two.

    I do not want to hear that I should change my web host because they are an amazing company that will bend over backwards for my site and it’s security.

    By all means contact Matt.

    But I would dispute the above quote. If your host has so little initiative that they would demean WP to you before first checking on updates to the software just doesn’t smell right to me.

    Of course you’re in the best position to judge that.

    Try this, it might explain a few things.
    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

    Here is the home page for that site with more info on WordPress.

    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/

    This section should change the borders at the outside of your content
    {
    background: #FFFFFF;
    margin: 0 auto 0 auto;
    width: 729px;
    text-align: left;
    border: <strong>3px solid #5F707A;</strong>
    }

    This section should be for the blockquote.

    #content div.post div.storycontent blockquote
    {
    background: <strong>#87B1EA;</strong>
    border: 1px solid #87B1EA;
    border-left: 2px solid #87B1EA;
    font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
    font-size: 11px;
    margin-left: 20px;
    padding: 4px 4px 4px 7px;
    width: 80%;
    }

    It looks like you had the right section for the blockquote, if the change doesn’t appear make sure you clear your cache or refresh a number of times.

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    Bingo!!!

    It was Mark Jaquith’s “Nice Categories” plugin.

    Once it was disabled then re-enabled the page displayed correctly.

    BUT that still doesn’t answer my original question. (loading sequence of WP temps)

    This plugin (I think) only adds quote marks around the cat listing for each post. That is displayed at the end of each post.

    With Rin having a left sidebar and the problem apparently starting with a plugin that should only be activated when the entry is loaded and displayed in the content area, why the problem?

    But at least I, or I should say WE, found the problem.

    Thanks alphaoid for nurseing my though it.

    Think I’ll send a note to Mark Jaquith and see if he can shed some light on the subject.

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    That may take awhile, me being a plugin freak.

    But to be honest why would a plugin problem only effect certain posts and not others – unless – I did enter a tag (Bunnys technorati tags) in all the posts

    Standby.

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    I hadn’t thought of switching themes.

    Stand by and I’ll check.

    Update: Nope, not theme related. I changed to Default Kubrick, Plain Vanilla, and Manji2. all actually displayed less than my usual theme Rin.

    Just reentered the original post (linked above) and it created the same problem.

    Yet I just entered a test post and the blog displays OK. It makes ZERO sense to me. I’ve entered two normal posts both had the same disply problem as described, but two test posts don’t create the problem!!

    Dazed and confused!!!

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    alphaoide and nmallory:

    Yes that’s one of the first things I checked. The source code stops at the same place the visual display stops.

    Oddly enough when this occurs and the post is viewed via my archive page the effected post displays correctly.

    But the Rin theme’s comment/single post page dosen’t have a sidebar.

    Yes it did operate normally previously (1500 total posts and approx 20-30 after 1.5.1 upgrade).

    In fact when I first started this thread the problem occured, I deleted the post (see link above for content) then successfully entered a test post. Some hours later a second post was entered and the problem reoccured!

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    Just an update. I attempted to enter another blog post with the same results. Sidebar stops at the Day by Day script, with no content data and no footer.

    After deleting the post the blog display returned to normal.

    Any ideas?

    Any one.

    Thread Starter Marc

    (@marc)

    Hemmm… that could be I hadn’t thought of that 🙂

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