WordPress 3.5 Issues

Don’t know what is happening, posted about 4 hours ago but seems to have vanished, as if it has been taken down.

Duplicates get deleted and that post was a duplicate of this one.

Your site http://www.itsjustlife.co.uk/ is using one of the most option ridden themes in the history of WordPress. On top of that you are using lots of plugins too with a ton of Javascript.

I cannot maintain fonts when I paragraph down, need to reset fonts for every paragraph!

Not sure what you are referring to. As Christine mentioned a week ago the styling (fonts) are controlled by the theme you are using. How are you changing the fonts?

At the bottom of every post I put links to relevant articles, highlight text, click link icon, insert link and save but when I save it messes up the spacing and the link vanishes!

How are you adding those links? Do you type in the text, highlight the text and then use the link icon in the Visual Editor?

We’ll need to know those two answers in order to help you figure out where your problem lies.

I just wrote this up for another thread, try this and please do not leave out a single step.

1. Deactivate all of your plugins. Really, everyone of them and no exceptions.
2. Switch to the Twenty Eleven theme. Someday, probably soon, I’ll tell people Twenty Twelve but for now use Twenty Eleven.
3. Clear your browsers cookies and cache. This is an important step because javascript files can be cached on your browser.
4. Re-login to your WordPress installation.
5. Create a new post and see if the Visual Editor works or not.

Don’t skip any steps and definitely clear out your browser’s cache and cookies.

Let us know how you make out with that. If that does not work then you’ll need to proceed with other steps to diagnose your problem.

For info I change the fonts by highlighting the text and clicking on the box in the top left corner, is it possible to set a default font for the site?

If you are doing that with each post and you want that to be the default then yes.

Normally you can do that via a child theme and place your custom CSS in the child theme’s style.css file.

But that theme may have an option for that somewhere… if you want to stick with that theme you may want to ask at their support forum.

http://forum.bytesforall.com/forumdisplay.php?f=38

what I am looking for is a rotating header, one sidebar either side, the ability to remove sidebars on pages and easy insertion of html script etc. can you recommend a more WordPress friendly theme?

I’m glad you keep your requirements simple too. 😀

It’s hard for other people to recommend themes as you know best what you want and don’t want. Aside from looking at these links there’s not much advice I can offer on that.

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/
http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/tag-filter/

What I recommend you do is create a new Crash Test Dummy installation with a new URL and hostname, check the Search Engine Visibility to “Discourage search engines from indexing this site. It is up to search engines to honor this request.” and use that new installation to play with.

That way you can search and test new themes without impacting your actual WordPress installation.