Need Help – Sidebar and Footer Not Showing Up

I take it you’re talking about another website than the one in your profile? Because it looks good.

Yes. Sorry. A client site. https://www.famousagents.com

thnx

Here’s the validation for one of your pages:
https://famousagents.com/2006/08/

https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Ffamousagents.com%2F2006%2F08%2F

Yes, that’s because the sidebar and footer aren’t being pulled properly. Here’s the test version on my own server: https://www.michaeldpollock.com/dev2/services

It’s the exact same theme and it looks fine.

Compared to his: https://www.famousagents.com/services

For some reason, on this server, the sidebar and footer are being omitted. The question is why?

Best – Michael

An additional piece of info …

There’s another version of WordPress installed and functioning properly in a subdirectory of the directory in which I have this site on.

Wondering if that’s part of the problem???

No probably not. I have 5 Wp’s installed in differing directories on the same server in the same db.

It doesn’t make much sense to me. Now, if it was a Windows server…
It has to be a server problem, though, doesn’t it? If the installs are identical.
I suppose you’ve checked that mod_rewrite is turned on.

mod_rewrite??

Here’s my .htaccess:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

#BrowserMatch “MSIE” brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch “Mozilla/4.[0-9]{2}” brokenvary=1
#BrowserMatch “Opera” !brokenvary
#SetEnvIf brokenvary 1 force-no-vary

ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault A18000
ExpiresByType image/gif A2592000
ExpiresByType image/jpeg A2592000
ExpiresByType image/png A2592000

Where do check to see if mod_rewrite is on?

thnx

“Where do check to see if mod_rewrite is on?”

You would have to find out from the host. It’s a server variable. Most hosts will turn it on if it’s off.

How odd. If you “view source” – your sidebar *is* being picked up. However, there’s a boo-boo somewhere – it looks like this:

<div id="sidebar">

<div class="sidelist">
<h3>Recent Posts</h3>
<ul>

Something in that first LI tag is screwing it up, I think, because it stops short of showing it. That’s causing the rest of the stuff not to show up afterwards, including your footer.

What does your “Main Index Template” look like? Or, even better, your “sidebar.php” template? Are you perhaps missing some minor tag somewhere? Could be something easily overlooked…

But your sidebar is most definitely being picked up, as it’s showing up in your source code.

OMG doodlebee. you’re a genius (and i’m a buffoon). I’m using a plugin to pull recent posts and I forgot to activate it on the new site.

activated the plugin and problem solved.

oy-vey!

thanks so much for your help. both of you.

michael

hey all – I’m having this EXACT SAME PROBLEM. “however” – I’m not using any kind of plugin. Any suggestions???