Magazine Template Format Problem

[EosVirtual]

I am developing three separate blog/websites, using suffusion. One of the sites I use to test out new plugins, options, etc (risksights.com). risksights is setup with suffusion theme, magazine template for home page, double sidebar to the right. I was adding and testing the suffusion commerce pack and jigoshop. during the setup process my home page (magazine template) formatting had problems. the two right sidebars would appear below the magazine template, and above the footer area. The right sidebar area remaining but totally empty. I deactivated both the pack and the jigoshop and then reactivated both and everything is now working fine. (http://www.risksights.com).

Another website (blog.bizcoachsteven.com) also uses the magazine template on the home page. I have also setup the two right sidebars and all was working fine. I DID NOT and I am NOT using commerce pack or jigoshop. Although, I discovered the same problem with the two sidebars appearing below the magazine template. I can't seem to find a way to fix this. I have no idea what I may have done. I don't recall changing anything. I did notice that the jquery was disabled, but I am not sure what this is used for. Any work lately has been on image loading, media changes, turned off cropping on the 150 x 150, etc.

My third site is http://www.thefifthdecade.info. I am using the magazine template here but it is not the main page. the blog page uses the magazine template and 1 sidebar and it is currently working fine. My goal when I finish learning about jigoshop is to install it into this website with a static home page, and a magazine template for the blog page.

Can you help me understand why the format problem is happening and how i can manage it / fix it?

thanks
Steve

[sayontan]

On the sites with a broken layout go to Other Graphical Elements -> Featured Content and set it to show duplicate posts.

[EosVirtual]

I selected Show Duplicate Posts. no impact with display.

Does "Where to Show" have to be selected too? nothing is enabled. First page only is selected.

[EosVirtual]

Sayontan -

I have continued to try various iterations and combinations of switching on and off. I can't seem to find what could be causing this formatting problem. I have also tried using 1 sidebar, left sidebar, etc. and nothing seems to matter. If I am using the maagazine template it no longer works on blog.bizcoachsteven.com. It does work properly on the other sites.

any other ideas for me?

thanks

[sayontan]

Is there a way you can set the "Excerpts" section to have 6 posts instead of 5?

[EosVirtual]

Sayontan -

It is now set for 6 excerpts. It is all beautiful again. thanks for the solutions. Now I can move onto the next step.

thanks