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		<title>When good themes go bad&#8230; One solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>catherine</dc:creator>
		
	<category>WP Troubleshooting</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was poking around my site and I noticed that my &#8220;About blogmaking.net&#8221; page&#8217;s format had gone a little haywire. The right sidebar looked like it had completely disappeared. It hadn&#8217;t, completely anyway, it was way off on the bottom left side of the page, mostly off screen, I could just see the end of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was poking around my site and I noticed that my &#8220;About blogmaking.net&#8221; page&#8217;s format had gone a little haywire. The right sidebar looked like it had completely disappeared. It hadn&#8217;t, completely anyway, it was way off on the bottom left side of the page, mostly off screen, I could just see the end of a long title. Now plaintxt.org do such good and well respected themes and my other pages (Archives, Links, Guide to Making a WordPress blog) all work so I figured it had to be something I did, not the theme&#8217;s fault. </p>
<p>So the first thing I suspected was there was some unwanted markup code in my page text. The easiest way of working this out is to go to Options/Writing and make sure that &#8220;Users should use the visual rich editor by default&#8221; is UNCHECKED (ie you are using the html editor not the rich visual editor). </p>
<p><a class="imagelink" href="http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/visulricheditoff.png" title="The Visual Rich Editor is swiched off"><img id="image64" src="http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/visulricheditoff.thumbnail.png" alt="The Visual Rich Editor is swiched off" /></a></p>
<p>You might also be able to click on the &#8220;html&#8221; tag in the visual rich editor to examine the html. But I don&#8217;t really trust the popup html editor in the visual rich interface (eg when I&#8217;ve posted video embeds in the popup editor they often just disappear). </p>
<p><a class="imagelink" href="http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/htmledit.png" title="HTML button in Rich text editor"><img id="image63" src="http://www.blogmaking.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/htmledit.thumbnail.png" alt="HTML button in Rich text editor" /></a></p>
<p>Once you&#8217;re looking at the html, see if you can find any unwanted or strange code. Especially, &lt;div&gt;s or &lt;/div&gt;s because these can play havoc on your theme if they are not supposed to be there. Basically, remove anything that looks like markup (ie in &lt;&gt;s) to be absolutely sure (you can probably leave links, images and italic/bold/format type markups if you can recognise them, I think they&#8217;re unlikely to affect the page). Save and reload your page. If it now works then you know that was the problem.</p>
<p>When I went into the html editor I found about seven lots of &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;s littered around the page, who knows how they got there. When I removed them, my &#8220;About blogmaking.net&#8221; page went back to working perfectly. </p>
<p>Be aware that sometimes, even just re-editing in the visual rich editor can sometimes muck around with your page&#8217;s coding, and be especially careful about editing pages with video embeds in the video rich editor because it can handle them quite strangely. Last time I tried, not only did the video disappear it replaced them with some weird &lt;param&gt; tags that broke the formatting of my page. I had to switch on the html editor, remove the unwanted code and repaste the video embeds.
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