Internet Explorer has always given me trouble with my WordPress Theme and Plug-Ins
Posted by: dragonblogger // Category: InternetI just am pulling my hair out, one of my friends visited my blog today and told me they can’t see any side columns with Internet Explorer. I only use Firefox, so when I opened my Internet Explorer 7 I was shocked to see that all of my side widgets don’t show up at all in IE6 or IE7. Literally my RSS Feed Subscription, my Google Adsense, my Entrecard button, nothing shows up in Internet Explorer. 70% of users still use Internet Explorer, so does this mean 70% of the people visiting my site can’t see these widgets and subscribe, or email, or drop me on entrecard?
This is what people are getting when they try to hit my site with Internet Explorer:
But Firefox renders the site just fine, even the new Google Chrome browser has no problems with my side widgets and ajaxified Wordpress Blog.
- So the troubleshooting begins as follows:
I logged into the Wordpress Site and disabled 80% of my widgets, saved and tested Internet Explorer again. No luck, I can’t get any side widgets to work. This makes me think that one of my plug-ins is the cause of my woes. So I logged back into wordpress and decided to systematically disable 1 plug-in after another.
After disabling and testing something like 25 plug-ins I still can’t get my site to render properly in internet explorerer. I am at my wits end here.
Does anybody know of specific plug-ins or widgets that break your wordpress theme or blog for Internet Explorer? Does the “Diary” Theme for wordpress not work for Internet Explorer from the start?
This made me start to think, I am sure other bloggers starting their first wordpress or blogger accounts had similar issues. I remember when I had a blogspot account that my google adsense widget wouldn’t show the google ad in firefox, but only showed it in Internet Explorer.
Man, I wish all browsers would render stuff the same way.
Please share your blog setup and configuration horror stories and problems and how you resolved them. If someone can give me the correct suggestion to fix my Wordpress Theme in Internet Explorer, I will gift you 50 EC’s from Entrecard.
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September 4th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
I’ve been in such a situation before. Some plugin, which I can’t remember the name of, caused a lot of problems.
But you say that you’ve tried that. Have you inserted a php code in your main index or some where else in your theme to use a plugin? If so try to remove that and try again.
I hope this will help you!
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September 5th, 2008 at 1:06 am
This is what you call browser battle. I hope this post i stumble upon will solve your problem. http://www.designvitality.com/blog/2007/10/designing-for-every-browser-how-to-make-your-site-fully-cross-browser-compatible/
Sometimes, it’s have something to do with the site design.
Cheers.
Iris
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September 5th, 2008 at 5:27 am
I was having so many problems with ie I stopped using it completely with the exception of one site that doesn’t work on anything else (those developers need a wake up call!) – so many sites I was visiting had the same problem you are!
The problem is likely a script somewhere on your sidebar widgets or your css code – i’m terrible with css fixing so can’t offer much help there, but try removing your sidebar goodies one by one (i know not much fun!) – that fixes it for me *most* of the time
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September 5th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Thanks for the tips, I did remove every single side bar widget one at a time already and can’t get it to work.
I also removed 80% of all plugins and still can’t get it to render.
I am going to download the Internet Explorer 8 beta if I can find it and see if it renders better on IE8, then I guess I will just wait for IE8.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Do not worry, most people use firefox and chrome nowadays. The exact figure is 25% IE6/7, 50% Firefox and 25% Google Chrome. If you make any changes to your Wordpress Blog in Firefox/Chrome then it will be much much easier.
IE6/7 cannot be fixed, I’m sorry to say but if I were you I’d stop using IE for the moment. The other web browsers are far better.
McVann
P.S I have taken your op, does this count.
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:09 am
I have strange problem with my website built on Wordpress 2.6.2. It works fine in Firefox, Opera, Safari. But, when use IE, 7 or even 8, it still not show up correctly.
I don’t know what’s wrong, I just need someone to share with.
May be here someone will give solution, as for your problem too.
please try to check my problem and help me out.
you can try see menurohani.com with Firefox, compare to IE.
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October 23rd, 2008 at 5:55 am
hi, you seem to have solved that problem. How did you do it? Because I am having the same problem with my wordpress blog
February 14th, 2009 at 11:57 am
I have the same problems. I tried to removed all plugins and sidebar widgets, but the problem remains. How did you solve it, dragonblogger?
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February 14th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I had to tweak my style.css and style6.css files, it was the stylesheets that were broken. You can start with the default word press ones, and try to make them back like your theme 1 at a time.
Note this will mess your theme appearance but is only way for sure to get it working right again, so save your existing style.css files first.
February 16th, 2009 at 11:32 am
I find my text goes all weird in IE, ( Gosh I hate IE) it looks like typewriter text.
Anyone else have that problem? It seems to happen after I insert adsense ads. Also it would help dragonblogger if you gave us a bit more details on your fix!
March 18th, 2009 at 8:59 am
I had a similar problem with my work’s Wordpress blog. The solution was strange. Most of my blogs I created in MS Word and then pasted into Wordpress using the Paste from Word tool. When I did so, coding from Word was put into each blog post. If any post containing that coding showed up on my blog home page, either the entire site would go blank or I would lose my sidebar widgets. I went through my posts and deleted the extraneous code from Word (usually at the top of the post) in code view, and it worked fine. Now I have a problem with my top page links not working in IE, but I’m not sure of the cause of that.
Maybe that will help you. And if anyone knows why my top page links won’t show up in IE, please give me advice. http://www.cslewis.org/journal is my site using Wordpress.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:14 am
True, I find that I only copy word doc text into the “HTML Editor” which strips out all of the meta code that is behind the word document information. I also use “TextPad” to write posts instead of word for the same reason.