I 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.

-Thanks Fellow Bloggers

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