Boldface no longer working in this theme

  • Resolved syzygist

    (@syzygist)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    In posts created in Classic Editor (which is all posts on my Vega site), text styled as bold is not rendering as such. It doesn’t seem to matter whether the bold text is created on the Visual or Text tab of the Classic Editor (which makes sense, since the same <strong>content</strong> HTML tags are created either way). Mysteriously, italics still work fine.

    I tested this in multiple browsers, checked my additional CSS and typography settings in Customize, and tried activating a couple of plugins that seemed the most likely culprit for this type of problem, but nothing fixed it until I switched to a default theme, so it does seem to be a Vega issue.

    Any thoughts about what could be causing this type of issue?

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by syzygist.
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  • Hi @syzygist,

    Thanks for getting in touch about this, very sorry to hear about the trouble!

    We haven’t had any reports of this before, but it sounds very interesting and we’d love to investigate. Thank you for all the detailed info! Would you mind including a link to your site so we can try to track down the cause of this issue?

    Thanks again!

    Thread Starter syzygist

    (@syzygist)

    Oops, while boldfacing didn’t work when I switched to Twenty Twenty, it did work when I tried it in another theme today, so not your theme’s fault. Sorry about that (and thanks for the reply). But while I’ve got you, is it your intention to bring Vega up to compatibility with the current version of WordPress? It still has a lot of users, and I’m hoping I’m not going to have to rebuild my site in a new theme ??

    Thanks so much for the follow up- that’s great to hear, but I do hope you’re able to get it resolved either way.

    Good question on the updates! It’s been a bit of a slow stretch due to all of the craziness of the past two years, but we have just recently begun going through and adding feature requests, bug fixes, and compatibility updates to our themes in order of popularity and necessity. Vega is definitely on our radar but due to its smaller user base it was a little further down the list.

    Would you mind sharing the biggest pain points you’re running into with compatibility, etc.? Any suggestions would be great, but compatibility-related issues would be the most helpful since they would obviously be top priority.

    Thanks again!

    Thread Starter syzygist

    (@syzygist)

    Glad to hear Vega is not abandoned. I haven’t noticed any compatibility issues thus far (I built the site in the classic editor and don’t change it often), but also hadn’t realized Vega hadn’t been updated in two+ years, and was alarmed to discover it. I suspect there are theme authors who would be quite envious to hear 4,000 active users referred to as a “smaller” user base.

    The pace of change to the WordPress core and time required to keep up seems to be ever-escalating, which has got me reconsidering whether a commitment to WordPress is sustainable, and I imagine I’m not the only one.

    I will certainly keep an eye out, though, and let you know if anything comes up. Thanks again for your responsiveness, MUCH appreciated.

    Thanks for the helpful feedback! You’re right, it really is moving at an incredibly fast pace these days.

    Best of luck with your site, and thanks again!

    Thread Starter syzygist

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