Sidebar not positioning properly in template 2014

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    (1) I am brand new to using WordPress. I am trying to use it only for our blogs. I have set up the blog page using the Twentyfourteen template. That template contains a sidebar on the left side of the page. However, when anyone goes to our site, the sidebar information is displayed below the blog entries. After several weeks of research, I cannot figure out why this is happening and how to get the sidebar to move back to the left side. Can anyone help?

    (2) I am also having trouble getting my header image to display properly. I don’t know if its size is incorrect (I have tried several widths) or what is causing it to appear the way it does. Again, any help would be appreciated.

    (P.S. I have spent a lot of time reading the child template pages, etc., but they really confuse me. I am very weak in java scripts.)

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  • Hi HBLM Staff. Be glad to try and help you.
    (1) Not sure I understand the sidebar issue. When I look at your blog site, the sidebar is on the left side and contains the site description followed by sections for “Links”, “Recent Posts”, “Archives” and “Categories”. That doesn’t sound like what you’re describing. Are you asking why the “Archives” and “Categories” sections are below the “Recent Posts” section? Or is the issue something different?
    (2) I can’t see anything specifically wrong with the header. It appears to contain a single image that shows a logo on the left and the name on the right. Can you provide some additional details on what you mean by “display properly” and “causing it to appear the way it does”?
    Thanks.

    Thread Starter HBLM Staff

    (@hblm-staff)

    Thanks for your response. I just tested this blog web site using Chrome and it appeared just as I would have expected. I then did some testing in Internet Explorer, which we typically use, and discovered that it was compatibility mode that was preventing the sidebar information from positioning correctly.

    The problem is that the site we use for hosting the rest of our web site, Web Hosting Hub, either has no control or no desire to update its software to work with any IE version above IE9. The only solution to the distorted page displays that we could find for those using IE10 or IE11 is to view these pages in compatibility mode. If I turn it off for the blog page, it distorts the rest of the web site. If I turn it on for the rest of the web site, it dispositions the sidebar and other elements on the blog page. Since both use the same basic domain, anything I do affects both. Irritating.

    Regarding the page width, after testing a little, I found that without compatibility mode, the header width will determine the width of the page contents, although they are all left-aligned instead of centered, as I would prefer. With compatibility mode on, the page width seems to be automatically determined and several page elements are positioned in strange places, including the header, the sidebar and the search button. Insane.

    I guess sometimes you just can’t win. Thanks for letting me know the site looked okay when being viewed “normally.” I have no idea what I can do about the hokey way our hosting site is managed.

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