Not displaying correctly on the desktop version of my self-hosted site

Resolved renatawiles
(@renatawiles)

7 years, 10 months ago

Hello,

I’ve just changed from wordpress.com to wordpress.org and am self hosting through bluehost.

I’ve moved everything across, and installed the Sela theme (which is the one I was using in wordpress.com) and when previewing the self hosted site it all seemed to look fine (a few issues with images but nothing major).

As soon as I made the self hosted site live, the desktop view changed and looks nothing like it should (or did in preview / or at wordpress.com).

The mobile version is working fine and looks as it should.

Can anyone help me with this? I contacted Bluehost and they told me to contact the theme vendor, but I was hoping someone might have had this problem and be able to give me some advice!

Thanks very much in advance.

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Siobhan
(@siobhyb)

7 years, 10 months ago

Hi @renatawiles,

I compared your new site at missadventure.org with your old WordPress.com site and they look pretty similar to me. Here’s a couple of screenshots of what I’m seeing:

Do those screenshots match up to what you’re seeing on your end? If not, try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies. We can keep troubleshooting from there, if it doesn’t help.

It’s also worth noting that Sela relies on the Jetpack plugin for some of its features, including the testimonials and social menu on the home page.

If you let me know the specific features that you’re missing from the home page, I’ll be happy to offer some further suggestions and guidance.

Thanks!

Luke Cavanagh
(@lukecavanagh)

7 years, 10 months ago

The site looks good on desktop using Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

@renatawiles you could speed up your site by image optimizing these three images on the site.

http://missadventure.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/firenze-1263165_1920.jpg
http://missadventure.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/folding-map-360382_1920.jpg
http://missadventure.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/wanaka-276860_1920.jpg

It will reduce the file size of your site and make it faster to load.

Thread Starter renatawiles
(@renatawiles)

7 years, 10 months ago

Hello,

Thanks to both of you for getting back to me – I’ve tried on another computer and it does seem to be showing correctly now!

Also thank you for the advice on making the images load faster. Sorry for my lack of I.T ability, but how do I optimize the images?

Thanks so much for your help – I really appreciate it!

Luke Cavanagh
(@lukecavanagh)

7 years, 10 months ago

There are quite a few image optimization plugins.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/imagify/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinypng-for-wp/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-smushit/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/kraken-image-optimizer/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/optimus/

Any of these options should work out fine. Then you can run it on all site images.

Thread Starter renatawiles
(@renatawiles)

7 years, 10 months ago

Okay great – thank you so much for your help! I have another question but it is unrelated to this so I think I should start it in a new thread in case it helps others.

Thanks again!

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