The issue has been resolved. It was a widget that was interfering with Word Press. The widget author saw my post and fixed the widget.
I actually changed themes and it made no difference so I changed it back again. I don’t think this is a theme problem. I have also set my blog back to default settings and the boxes remain
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This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by ackerman.
I did not make any changes to my blog to cause this annoying problem