Fun and games with the sidebar

[gkideas]

Hi all,

I changed the WP template to the 2 column one by Dewald and have been messing around with the order of things in the sidebar. What I wanted to do was move the Site Tags below the Catagories and Recent Entries. One would think it would be a simple cut and paste. However, now I've ended up with 3 Site Tag sections!

Here's the site:

Best Organic Skincare

and here's the code from the sidebar.php file: (after the Recommended tag)

<h2>Search This Site:</h2>
<div class="menublock">
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<input class="searchfield" type="text" name="s" id="s" value="" title="Enter keyword to search" />
<input class="submit" type="submit" value="search" title="Click to search archives" />
</form>
</div>

<h2><?php _e('Categories:'); ?></h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<li><?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','',TRUE) ?></li>
</ul>

<h2>Recent Entries:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<?php $latest = new WP_Query('showposts=5');
while ($latest->have_posts()) : $latest->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
</ul>

<h2>Site Tags:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<font size="2"><?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedta gcloud","","25") ?></font>
</ul>


<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php if (function_exists('get_recent_comments')) { ?>
<li><h2><?php _e('Recent Comments:'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php get_recent_comments(); ?>

</ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>

<?php sem_subscribe_me(); ?>

<h2>Favorite Links:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<li><?php get_linksbyname('', '', '<br />', '', TRUE, 'name', FALSE, TRUE); ?></li>
</ul>

<?php if (function_exists('translate')) { ?>
<h2>Translate Site:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<li><?php translate(1); ?></li>
</ul>
<?php } ?>


<h2>Meta:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>


</div>


</div>

Any ideas what I did wrong?
Thanks for your help.

GiGi

[WestWing888]

You've got your site tag code stuck in a loop.

Move this; <?php endwhile; ?> ABOVE this; <h2>Site Tags:</h2>

So it ends up looking like this;

<h2>Recent Entries:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<?php $latest = new WP_Query('showposts=5');
while ($latest->have_posts()) : $latest->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
</ul>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<h2>Site Tags:</h2>
<ul class="menublock">
<font size="2"><?php UTW_ShowWeightedTagSetAlphabetical("coloredsizedta gcloud","","25") ?></font>
</ul>

Mike

[gkideas]

That worked!

Thanks so much! Saved me a lot of time.

GiGi