Title: WIdgets push content down
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# WIdgets push content down

 *  [jhauer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhauer/)
 * (@jhauer)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-push-content-down/)
 * Help! I’m working on a custom template (the authors are no longer available).
   I need to add a widget to the left sidebar under the side nav. When I add any
   widget it pushes the main content of all pages down to the bottom. I’m guessing
   that there is some coding issue since “Contact Sidebar” shows up where a contact
   form used to reside. Any help would be appreciated. [http://DGLAustin.com](http://DGLAustin.com)—
   I checked the code and found an open section tag in the footer but fixing that
   didn’t correct the issue.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-push-content-down/#post-2755435)
 * Looks like there is still an html error — [http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdglaustin.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0](http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdglaustin.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0)
 * Looks like there are some other layout issues in that template (width and margins
   on the middle section of the page) — but fix that error first…
 * [Firebug](http://getfirebug.com) is really helpful for looking at the CSS on 
   a live page.
 *  Thread Starter [jhauer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jhauer/)
 * (@jhauer)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-push-content-down/#post-2755443)
 * Cleaned up that issue and now the main content looks like it’s part of the left
   sidebar, limited to the size of sidebar.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-push-content-down/#post-2755482)
 * Great — but that leaves you with some major layout structure problems
 *     ```
       <section id="content">
            <section id="sidebar">
       </section>            THIS IS CLOSING THE CONTENT SECTION
   
       <section id="main">
   
       <section id="sidebar_right">
       ```
   
 * Basically, the main and right sidebar sections are below the content section —
   but they should be inside it…
 * And the footer section is outside the wrapper section — and it should be inside
   it.
 * So I’m not sure which of your template files are messed up or what is going on.
   You might consider changing to another similar theme as it is going to take some
   php and html knowledge and work to fix these problems…

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 * Last reply from: [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-push-content-down/#post-2755482)
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