I’m really confused by all this theme stuff. I like the way you can preview them. But most of them look just awful when I do that. Many shove a previous post of mine into the RHS column even though on the screenshots they look like they offer navigation bits. My current theme (Pressrow) at least doesn’t do that. But then it doesn’t put anything in the RH column. Rather the things I thought I’d added with the widget page to the RH column (Recent posts, Search, Email Subscription) appear at the bottom. Except on the about tab where they do appear on the right. What am I doing wrong?
Well I now see it works OK when you look at a single blog post, just not the big long list you get on the Home tab. Something very confusing is going on here. I suspect there is a blogging concept I’m missing.
Problem solved courtesy of this:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/layout-issues/
Something to do with stray HTML. In my case I was using angle brackets in a non HTML way. It is a bit galling how much time I wasted before I came across this very helpful bit of support. There really does seem to be a big problem with how to search for help when of course you are confused and don’t know the right keywords. If only I’d googled: wordpress theme widget sidebar bottom. It seems so obvious in retrospect.
