theme alignment issues after upgrade

  • RossB

    (@rossb)


    16 years, 7 months ago

    Hi folks.
    I’ve finally upgraded to the latest version of WP after running 2.3.3 for waaay too long.

    I now find that there are some minor alignment issues with my current theme. Rather than try to describe these, here’s a link to my blog (pls scroll down to the very bottom, and the alignment problem will be evident): The Boomtown Rap

    I guess this is something correctable by modding the CSS, but I wouldn’t have a clue where to find the file or whatever that the CSS is in, or how to change it. Can anyone give me a clue, perchance?

    PS: I know a simple solution would be to change to another theme, but I like this one, and would prefer to keep it if possible. That said, this alignment imperfection is bugging me, so if I can’t fix it, I suppose I’ll have to try another theme.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    you have unclosed <div>‘s and other tags- look near bottom of errors

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks samboll, but just wondering: what do all these ‘errors’ mean – that this design is seriously flawed? Maybe if it’s that riddled with errors I do need to change skins?!

    Also, which file would I find those unclosed <div>s in, please?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Looks like the theme is partly at fault, so you’d need to go through index.php and any other posts template file to fix the errors. There’s some evidence that the theme’s been customised and non-XHTML markup added (such as <center>). Then there are markup errors in the content of some of the Text widgets, so they would need sorting too if you wanted to get rid of as many validation errors as possible.

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, esmi, but I haven’t a clue about php.

    You’re right. I have done a little bit of customising (someone helped me through it, I think from one of these forums) – just aligning some of the stuff in the sidebar and changing hyperlink and hover font colour, from memory.

    The Text widgets you refer to – what are they? Would that be to do with some plugin I’ve added, or something inherent in the skin design?

    Cheers
    Ross

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    The Text widgets you refer to – what are they?

    Admin/Appearance/Widgets. The code you’ve pasted in for 3rd party forms etc contains validation errors.

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    16 years, 7 months ago

    OK, ta esmi. Do you think it might be worthwhile deleting my current sidebar widgets, then reinstalling them from the ones available on the updated version of WP? Just thinking some of the ones currently being used might be old, and less than fully compatible with WP 2.8.4?

    Cheers

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