Title: Dropped widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Dropped widgets

 *  [DFlynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dflynn/)
 * (@dflynn)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/)
 * Need help,
 * As of yesterday, the widgets for my blogroll, meta, comments, etc decided to 
   drop down to way below the text. [here.](http://calvinandcalvinism.com/)
 * They should be on the right as they still are on the other pages, eg: [here.](http://calvinandcalvinism.com/?page_id=214)
 * Has anyone a solution to get this corrected? I am not a tech guy so please be
   kind.
 * Thanks
    David

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/#post-1037076)
 * It’s almost certainly a problem within one of your recent posts that is creating
   this effect. Unfortunately, you have so many [validation errors](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcalvinandcalvinism.com%2F)
   that it’s hard to tell which error is the most likely culprit. so I can only 
   offer some suggestions:
 * 1. Try and validate your site. Errors such as “document type does not allow…”
   or “end tag for […] omitted” are all likely to cause the kinds of problems you’re
   experiencing.
 * 2. Don’t paste content from Word directly into your blog. Either use the “Paste
   from “Word” option in the Visual Editor or save your a copy of your Word document
   in plain .txt before copying its content. Text copied directly from Word contains
   a great deal of ‘hidden’ formatting information. At best, this makes your posts
   far larger than they actually need to be. At worst, it can even stop your posts
   from being displayed at all!
 *  Thread Starter [DFlynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dflynn/)
 * (@dflynn)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/#post-1037090)
 * Greetings ESMI,
 * I deleted the post that I was working on when it happened. Nothing changed.
 * I do cut and paste from Word because its the only way that I know to retain the
   footnotes from the original essay. Is there another way to do that? I would love
   to abandon word altogether. NAnd I delete all that junk at the top of the paste.
 * So I dont know what to do?
 * David
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/#post-1037284)
 * If you use the “Paste from Word” button in the Visual Editor, you should avoid
   many of the problems.
 * Or Use File/Save As in Word and in the “Save as type” dropdown, select one of
   the `*.txt` formats. Close the Word document, open up your new `*.txt` document,
   copy the text and paste into WordPress.
 * With regard to your current problems, I think it will be one of the recently 
   published posts that is causing the widgets to drop down. Try working backwards
   through your posts – resetting their status to “Draft” and checking the site 
   after each change. Eventually, the widgets will self-correct and you’ll know 
   that the problem is within the last post that you removed.
 *  Thread Starter [DFlynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dflynn/)
 * (@dflynn)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/#post-1037312)
 * G’day Esmi,
 * I have removed the last three posts including the one I was working on when the
   widgets dropped, and converted 4 others way prior to this gliche to draft mode.
   No change.
 * I am still at a loss.
 * Suggestions?
 * Thanks,
    David

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [DFlynn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dflynn/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dropped-widgets/#post-1037312)
 * Status: not resolved

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