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1. songerk
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Hello all, my website is up and running fine, but I need to edit my posts. I just transferred them all from blogspot (www.katiesonger.blogspot.com) into my new website (www.thegreatbetween.com). For the first couple days after they transferred, editing was working fine, but I must have changed something today when changing the look of my website...? Now, when I go to edit a post or a page, this happens:

   For an instant, in the editing box, I can see everything the way it's supposed to look. But then, text and images get swept over to the right-hand side of the box AND get messed up: huge spaces where there shouldn't be; strange line breaks; etc. I have to scroll over to the right to see all of it. Images looked squished from top to bottom.

   When I go back onto the website, it all looks fine. What happened?

   (And please be gentle--I don't understand html and only a tiny bit of CSS.) Thanks very much for your help!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Have you tried:

   - deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

   - switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

   - resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

   - re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.

3. songerk
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   esmi,

   Thanks for the quick reply. I figured out what was going on, and I'll explain in case this happens to others. I had wanted to put a vertical line between my content area and the left sidebar, but I had noticed that the line disappeared until I went far down enough that the sidebar content had ended. In other words, the sidebar was overlapping the vertical line I had drawn. Being a beginner, the best remedy I thought of was to create a large left margin in my content area; a margin of ~300px did the trick, and the line reappeared.

   Well, I later forgot I had done that, and it was what was causing all the content of my posts to jump to the right in Visual Editor. Sure enough, when I undid the margin-left command, Visual Editor went back to normal.

   This left me with the original problem: the vertical line had once again disappeared. But I'm rapidly learning more css and html, and I figured out that instead of setting a content-area left margin, I could set the width of the left sidebar to be slightly smaller. (I'm using the Weaver theme; this command was "#primary.widget-area {width: 220px;}" in the Advanced Options section of the Weaver Admin editor.)

   Voila! Now I've got a vertical line and the ability to edit normally. Thanks!

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