Changing Margins in WordPress SmartOne Theme

  • lfossen

    (@lfossen)


    10 years, 11 months ago

    I am pleading for help! I am a complete novice when it comes to CSS. My Joomia website was hacked and I have converted it to WordPress using the SmartOne theme. I have managed to add social media icons, line up my icons on the header, removed comments (using this as website versus a blog) and remove my sidebars. However I am ready to pull my hair out trying to figure out how to change my left margin. Can someone please look at LindaFossen.com and tell me what I am doing wrong. Please answer in plain English – I am not a computer geek by any stretch of the imagination. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Try using Firefox with the Firebug add-on for this kind of CSS troubleshooting. Or use whatever developer tool is available in your web browser. WordPress uses CSS in the same way as any other site – including a Joomla one.

    Thread Starter lfossen

    (@lfossen)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks esmi for the response. I tried to figure it out with Firebug but again, I am not a computer geek so I had no luck there. I did NOT write the Joomia site and have no formal training at all on CSS and only mimicked info gleaned from various posts to make the changes I already have. I really am that stupid! If you could look over my style.css file, I would be so appreciative. Thank you!

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Hi Linda,
    It looks like you have some HTML mark-up errors that may be causing problems with the layout – those open or unclosed tags are often problematic – so that’s the place to start:

    http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flindafossen.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

    Unfortunately, there’s not a quick fix for those- you have to look at your site using View Source in the browser for where the unclosed tag is and then look in your content or theme files for where the problem is. Plugins can cause problems as well, so deactivating any you have might be a good thing to do first.

    Thread Starter lfossen

    (@lfossen)

    10 years, 11 months ago

    Woo Hoo! I fixed it – the margins are working!!! Thank you so much…

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