Help with lots of blank entries below posts and above footer

  • Resolved travelcats

    (@travelcats)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    A lot of white space has popped up below the posts and above the footer on my home page. I am not sure what I did to cause this problem and can’t figure out how to remove it. It appear to be consistent across browsers. I would like to change this to remove all the unused white spaces.

    My website is: website link

    My website has also suddenly started loading very slowly and I wonder if this might be part of the issue?

    Thanks in advance for your help!

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  • Well… there appears to be the exact same number of “empty” placeholders as there are content excerpts on that page. I wonder if they are related?

    Have you tried deactivating all of your plugins to test? I wonder if that social sharing plugin is interfering?

    Thread Starter travelcats

    (@travelcats)

    Hi Josh,

    Thanks for your reply. I had tried to deactivate all the social media sharing plugin before with no luck, and I just tried deactivating all the plugins I have on the site and still no luck. It does not appear to be related to any of the plug-ins.

    Other thoughts?

    Thread Starter travelcats

    (@travelcats)

    Does anyone else have any thoughts about how I can remove these blank spaces? The issue does not appear to be plug-in related and it only appears to be a problem on the front/home page not on any of the other pages. It does not appear in an old version of IE, but does in a new version, as well as my versions of Chrome and Firefox.

    It’s because you have nested Artciles inside of articles.

    All of those blank spots are you closing out your article tags

    example: </article>

    so the end of your page looks just like this

    </article>
        </article>
       </article>
      </article>
     </article>
    </article>
  </article>

    and its creating a whole bunch of whitespace(margin) area below the content. If you see you have something set up like this.

    <article>
   <article>
     <article>
     </article>
   </article>
 </article>

    instead of something that should look like this –

    <article></article>
<article></article>
<article></article>
<article></article>
    Thread Starter travelcats

    (@travelcats)

    Hi Evan,

    Thanks so much for identifying the problem! I have been searching around my coding to try to find this on my own and I can’t seem to find these <article> codes anywhere. What files should I be checking? Sorry if this is obvious, but I am pretty new to blogging.

    Thanks!
    Jessica

    Thread Starter travelcats

    (@travelcats)

    It seems that the problem has been identified (the article nesting) but could someone point me to where I can check on this and fix this issue? I have been searching all week without being able to fix the issue of all the blank entries on my home page. Thanks so much!

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