the poetics project

Nope I have not, and it only allows you the option of that widget on goodreads. I’ll look though. Thanks for the help either way! At least I now know what the problem is.

I didn’t actually write this post. A contributor did. But I just checked and they inserted this goodreads poll.

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How did you find out about the last book you read?
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If I remove the poll, everything goes back to the way it should look like. Any idea why the poll would change the template of that post? I’m just curious. This has never happened before. I’m wondering if there’s a way to keep the poll, without it doing that.

The rest of the posts appear normal.

I even turned off the comment box for that post just to see if it would do anything. The comment box disappears, but the sidebar is still at the bottom.

I made it a draft again. Even just in preview mode as a draft though the comment box is still spanning the whole page and causing the sidebar to appear at the bottom.

I’m looking at the blog more closely now. It’s only doing it to the post that went up today? Should I still re-upload a fresh copy? I’m not super techy. I just don’t get why the post today would be treated differently than all the others when they are using the same template (and nothing was done differently).

Melanie

I’m honestly not sure what’s going on at all. I can go into the stylesheet and change the width of the comment box, but the sidebar is still remaining at the bottom of the screen, even though it should be up at the top like it is on the home page.

It’s very frustrating that the theme would change randomly despite me not touching anything.

Melanie

Yes. They said to contact wordpress.