sidebar issues…but only on home page…rest are okay

  • I’ve done a lot of reading and sidebar issues are often posted. Can’t find a solution so any advice would be very helpful. Cheers!

    Here’s my site: https://www.elspencer.com/wordpress

    I’m currently using Fast Track 1.0. My sidebar is stubbornly sitting at the bottom of my page:

    – I resized the #sidebar and the #navigation in my stylesheet in hopes this would fix things on the main page. nope.
    – I shrank all of my posted images over the past couple of months because I read that if content is too wide on the main page it could push the sidebar. nope.
    – I searched this support forum for the past 3 hours before posting.

    The weird thing is that all of my Pages are fine. Even the 2nd page of my home page shows up normal:

    https://www.elspencer.com/wordpress/index.php?paged=2

    Here’s another page in case it’s not possible to navigate:
    https://www.elspencer.com/wordpress/?page_id=39

    In the past I was using Daisy Rae Gemini and didn’t seem to have any problems. My friend’s server crashed and he had to reinstall MySql.

    I’m really confused because the sidebar is only dropping to the bottom of the page on my home page in WordPress…

    I really love the power of WordPress, but wish php wasn’t so difficult sometimes! Thanks guys for helping me out if you can.

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  • I had a look using FF. Its saying that you’re missing the closing [/div] in your right sidebar for [div id=”sidebar]. ie; there’s no closing sidebar div. This may be directly related to your sidebar issue although I’m thinking its definately a POST.

    I opened each post on your front page that holds images. Of all the posts now displaying via index.php, the only post that screwed your layout was My Favourite Flag. All rest render correctly.

    Check your img src html coding for that particular post. Check your image dimensions, as well. And your floating elements. Are all elements correctly closed.

    There’s something wrong with that post.

    elspencer,
    Here’s what I think is causing your problem: First, your header image is very wide. You should shrink it somewhat from left to right. (No matter what anyone else says, when we have had this problem of the right column sliding under the rest of the page, it is always because of one of two issues: either there is an image on the page that is too wide that is screwing up the rest of the page, OR there is a tag missing. I try to stay away from DIV tags whenever possible, but sometimes it is not possible.

    That may sound ignorant to the long term PHP users in here, but div tags can often be replaced by other types of tags that don’t take over and screw up a page.

    You can check out my blog at ‘www.artondisk.com’ and see that my right column works correctly.
    Also, many times a right column will work fine for FireFox and not work right at all for Internet Explorer. It takes some patience to look through the code and content to figure out what is causing the right column to misbehave, but it can always be fixed and it is always just a coding or image size problem, in my experience. Good luck with that.

    Thread Starter elspencer

    (@elspencer)

    @katgirl, you were right! It was My Fav Flag post. I just deleted it and it seemed to fix everything. Works in FF and IE. Next time I’ll check my img src coding if I come across this problem in the future.

    @computerfriend, yep your right column works great. I think the Fast Track theme is pretty good so I don’t have to change the header width. I like to use the rotating image feature in WP.

    Now I just need to learn which file to modify to adjust my NAV toolbar…

    Thanks again guys!

    Hi Katgirl,
    wat exactly did you do with FF. Because my frontspge isn’t showing images at the moment, but i cant’t figure it out why it’s still screws up my sidebar-position

    check https://www.beatzme.com

    can you help me please?

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