Custom query breaks template

Resolved!

For future reference, I noticed that there was some conditional logic giving the posts a class of span12, aka full-width, and when that happened some more conditional logic turned off the sidebar.

What I did was just replace it with static data through trial and error, comparing it to tempate-right-sidebar.php . Here’s what I have right now:

*For some reason, the comments are showing up on the first post but none of the others. I would like it to show on none of them, but I’ve given up for now. I’m calling it a feature rather than a bug.

<?php
/*
Template Name: Top Rated Posts
*/
	$query = new WP_Query(array(
    'post_status' =>'publish',
    'post_type' =>'post',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'meta_key' => '_liked',
    'paged' => (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1
    ));

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div class="container">

	<div class="row" id="blog" >

        <div class="span8">

        	<div class="row">

    <?php if ( $query->have_posts() ) :  ?>

        <div <?php post_class(); ?> >

			     <article class="article category">

				       <p>Most Inspiring Stories</p>

			     </article>

    	  </div>

		<?php while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post(); ?>

            <div class="pin-article span8 right-sidebar" >

				<?php do_action('suevafree_postformat');  ?>

              <div style="clear:both"></div>

            </div>

		<?php endwhile; else:  ?>

            <div class="pin-article span8 right-sidebar" >

                <article class="article category">

                    <h1> Not found </h1>

                    <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched into ',"suevafree" ) ?> <strong>: <?php the_category(' '); ?></strong></p>

                </article>

            </div>

	<?php endif;?>

            </div>

        </div>

        <section id="sidebar" class="pin-article span4">

            <div class="sidebar-box">

                <?php if ( is_active_sidebar('category-sidebar-area') ) {

                    dynamic_sidebar('category-sidebar-area');

                } else {

                    the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Archives','',
                    array('before_widget' => '<div class="widget-box">',
                          'after_widget'  => '</div>',
						  'before_title'  => '<h4 class="title">',
						  'after_title'   => '</h4>'
                    ));

                    the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Calendar',
                    array("title"=> __('Calendar','suevafree')),
                    array('before_widget' => '<div class="widget-box">',
                          'after_widget'  => '</div>',
						  'before_title'  => '<h4 class="title">',
						  'after_title'   => '</h4>'
                    ));

                    the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Categories','',
                    array('before_widget' => '<div class="widget-box">',
                          'after_widget'  => '</div>',
						  'before_title'  => '<h4 class="title">',
						  'after_title'   => '</h4>'
                    ));

                 }

                 ?>

            </div>

        </section>

    </div>

</div>

<?php

	get_template_part('pagination');
	get_footer();

?>