torahtrance

perfect! and its already included default in wordpress 🙂 thanks a lot

It seems now when you click on a post, a similar problem is found where sidebar2 goes to the bottom. Firebug shows:

<div style="position: static;">
</div>
<div class="wrap">
<div id="head">
</div>
<div id="menu">
</div>
<div id="midbar">
</div>
<div id="innerwrap">
<div class="c1">
</div>
<div class="c2">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<style>
</style>
<div id="IDCommentLoadingDiv" class="idc-loaded" style="display: block;"/>
<div class="c3">
<div id="sidebar2">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>

Ok I am posting the entire footer now. I didn’t change any code anywhere except what you mentioned. I am not sure you noticed, but sidebar2 loads up perfectly when I click on any link — the only time it fails and something odd happens is at the mainpage.

Footer.php (what is with it starting with many /div’s? ):

</div>

	<div class="c3">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar2.php");?>

	</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php
/* don't remove the credits */
?>
<div id="footer">
	Powered by <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>
	&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;
	<a href="http://www.themiddlepath.co.il" target="_blank">The Middle Path</a> is based entirely on authentic Jewish sources. We encourage you to write us your questions and feedback, as we are always planning the next stage.
<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</div>

</body>
</html>

Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t the sidebar2 be loading somewhere else and not in footer.php? Perhaps a plugin update or uninstall caused the problem?

also how are doing all this validation checking etc? I am new to this entire process and want to become self-sufficent one day 🙂

whow some oddities over here and I am a novice in PHP. BTW i never changed anything in the footer except at the bottom. I am not sure how this top part of the code got there. What should the footer look like in the beginning? I am going to remove all these divs etc..
*update* removed everything until the <? php. However now the bottom looks very messed up and sidebar2 is not loading. How can I put back the sidebar2 loading code? Not in footer.php, but index.php at the bottom?

</div>

	<div class="c3">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar2.php");?>

	</div>

</div>

</div>

<?php
/* don't remove the credits */
?>
<div id="footer">
	Powered by <a href="http://www.wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress</a>
	&nbsp;&middot;&nbsp;
	<a href="http://www.themiddlepath.co.il" target="_blank">The Middle Path</a> is based entirely on authentic Jewish sources. We encourage you to write us your questions and feedback, as we are always planning the next stage.
</div>

</body>
</html>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>

ok I went and removed ALL formatting from everywhere, but it still shows up in the bottom!

I looked at the source and this seems wierd:

<!-- /main column -->

</div>
	<div class="c3">

<!-- right sidebar -->

<div id="sidebar2">
<br /><br />

Can anyone help figure this out?

I went and copied all the text from the posts, and then repasted it using the paste from word. In the process I checked back, and noticed the sidebar was back in place! Yay! but then I completed the task, and came back to find once again, the sidebar is in the middle column at the bottom….

Did I miss something?

*edit* also something else wierd, each post down gets put in a smaller and smaller frame… ???