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I wrote this a couple days ago, but something must have interrupted me before I posted…

Hi CrouchingBruin,

First, it absolutely makes my day to see your name in an email notification. It’s lovely to see you! 🙂

Second, this is by far, or seems to be, the most complex thing I’ve attempted.

The icons, when I click on the link to them, are so tiny I can’t make them out. And I don’t know how to select one. They don’t seem to have names or ways to be identified. Or, they do and I haven’t seen it.

The images must get bigger, to 24 px, when you use them, because in their present state in the list I don’t think they are more than 4 px for the grey and teal combined.

But, maybe that’s not important. Since I like the stars, I can use them for my new image file, except I don’t know how to separate them from everything else and put them into GIMP. Do I use GIMP to make the new file?

4/2/2014 ~ After looking at my menu repeatedly, I think the thing to do might be to reduce the size enough so that the stars look like little crowns. I’m going to try that. I’ve just been a little overwhelmed… I had a leak in my kitchen for years, the other day it became clear that the plasterboard on the kitchen ceiling was loose. I had it taken down so it wouldn’t fall on me, or my dinner, and that revealed that the insulation was full of water… LOL. Have to laugh. So my website has taken a bit of a backseat.

Still, today I think I’ll have time to try this.

Thank you HUGELY for your help!!!!

Karen

Hi Tobias,
That’s my test page, so it’s different from ones that people see. When you mentioned the problem, or CrouchingBruin did, I shortly thereafter discovered that the problem has to do with the way I switch back and forth between Visual and Text, so that I can make html that will show up in my widgets. (I couldn’t get my widgets to work show pictures, so I copied your donate thing with your picture and used it as a standard to copy, not the actual picture and text, but the way it looks that makes it work.) I need to buy you another cup of coffee for that help, alone!

the thing is, that in switching back and forth some weird things can happen. Really weird. Odd things get duplicated, as an example, instead of spaces being added.

I don’t use the switching approach on any of my pages that people see, so the tables people see are all lovely, in accordance with your Super plug in.

I’m almost out of time on my solar, it’s very cloudy today.

Hi Tobias,

I don’t know how to create a temporary Admin. My brain injury is ultra irritating because it makes doing things, confusing time consuming and difficult.

My database was supposed to have been transferred, too. let me check on that. Okay, I have a LOT of tables b/c after I made them and they were wrong, I didn’t delete them. Checking more carefully, the tables I use seem okay after all, but I can’t find what I need to copy to make the new table have the first and second column close together…

Please can you tell me again?

A site which was not moved from one provider to another has only two rows in it, whereas previously, when I made it, it had dozens…

So, the loss must be related to the upgrade…

Happiness!!! What a delight to be in contact again!!!

Thank you, CrouchingBruin!

That’s really interesting about how to change the width. I have a new site that I’m just getting started, so that will be a good place to test it out.

As an aside, I read through a lot of your other posts and answers here on the WordPress forums. I didn’t entirely understand all of them, but reading them gave me a somewhat broader view which in itself can be helpful.

I’m really glad you’re so generous with your expertise!!!

Karen

Maybe the thing to do would be to make the right hand margin of my text area larger… would that be something that’s possible?

Hi Crouching Bruin… This is so weird, I thought I posted an additional question, along with a note about the new season of The Amazing Race beginning with the Bruins marching band, which Of Course made me think of you.

But, I don’t see the additional question. Sigh.

It has to do with margins and space, both in my sidebars and at the top of my pages. I’ve been pretty stressed over a few things and that tends to exacerbate my brain injury with the result I’m even less efficient. Or, my memory and thinking capacity are…

At the top of my pages between the byline under the header picture and the stars for the menu items, there’s quite a lot of space. Some of my menus are long, so if I could reduce the empty space there would be room for one more menu item to show clearly. Maybe the stars would have to be smaller, too.

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And, no one with any tech knowledge on how to get it right seems to be paying any attention.

I redid my page, I couldn’t leave it all weirded out.