Sidebar falls down when there are no comments on a post

If you don’t have any other suggestions, I would like to try to target the closing div at the end of the single post to only posts which have comments. In theory, that would solve all my problems, although I have no idea why. Is this possible, or does it have to be done inside the comments.php?

The closing div in talk is this one (from single.php):

<?php comments_template(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.','Mimbo'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

‘comments_tempalte()’ is caling comments.php of the theme;

it would make sense to fix the div problem in that file.

I just downloaded ‘mimbo’ – and weirdly, the output of your comment section is different from the one of the default mimbo theme’s comments.php.

what is the code of comments.php?

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Hello, thanks for taking your time! Here is the code of comments.php

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Here you go:
https://pastebin.com/WNpjLF6Q

unfortunately, that https://pastebin.com/WNpjLF6Q is definitively not the template used in your site:

your site’s output:

<!-- You can start editing here. -->

<div id="comments">
<h2>Comments:</h2>

template code:

<h3 id="comments">
  <?php comments_number(__('0 Comments','Mimbo'),  __('1 Comment','Mimbo'), '% '.__('Comments','Mimbo').'');?>
</h3>

your site’s output:
<h2 id="respond">Leave a Comment</h2>
template code:

<h3 id="respond">
  <?php _e('Leave a Response','Mimbo'); ?>
</h3>

your site’s output:

<!-- Comment page numbers -->
<!-- End comment page numbers -->

template code:

<div class="clearfloat" id="pagination">
  <?php previous_comments_link(__('&laquo;Older Comments','Mimbo')); ?>
  <?php next_comments_link(__('Newer Comments&raquo;','Mimbo')); ?>
</div>

your site’s output:

<p><a href="https://www.justkeepthechange.com/how-to-sleep-your-way-out-of-pain-and-into-better-mental-health">Take me back to the blog post.</a></p>

<div id="reply">

template code:

<div id="cancel-comment-reply">
  <?php cancel_comment_reply_link(__('Cancel Reply','Mimbo')); ?>
</div>

search the theme’s files to find the real code for the comments.
or are you using a plugin?

Of course.. Something just struck me. I had a plugin called “Paged Comments” installed and activated. I have now deactivated it. And voila – everything works when there are no comments, and the sidebar falls down if someone has commented.

But yes, you were right. But everything should now be back to normal – though still with a slight problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch!