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Hi:

I’m not totally ignorant about WordPress. It’s just that my background is not in computer programming. In fact, it’s in business communications. However, I’ve tinkered with WordPress for over 10 years, so I do have some notion of what’s what.

My theme is called “Parabola”. I looked it up in my “websites” folder and copied the code from the “header.php” file to a program called Text Wrangler (remember, I’m running the site on DesktopServer on a Mac). From there I copied it to pastebin.com (like you asked). The URL is https://pastebin.com/cH3cicxZ.

I also downloaded a fresh copy of “Parabola” to my desktop and compared the fresh copy of the “header.php” file to the one that obtained from my “Websites” folder. For that I used a software called “Compare/Merge”. They seem to be identical.

The reason why I think it’s a database problem is because I changed my theme to “twentynineteen” and the problem prevailed. Furthermore, the menus don’t disappear on the front end of my site. They disappear in my dashboard.

You went way over my head with your explanation. I have no idea how to do any of what you suggest.

Is there a plain English (for mere mortals) equivalent of what you suggest?

Hi Joy:

Thank you for answering so quickly.

Here’s the long version.

This site has been off the Internet for about one year. Before that it was hosted by Bluehost, where it got hacked.

I had a plugin called Updraft installed that would back up my site every seven days to Amazon S3. The site that I have running on DesktopServer came from a backup that was from 90 days before I got hacked, so I don’t think it was contaminated.

It’s the oldest backup I had and the only way that I have to bring the site back to life.

We’re talking about a blog with over 300 posts. The last 9 years of my life are in there.

Not only can I not see the menus on my dashboard, but if I attempt to create new ones I can’t see those either.

After I installed the site on DesktopServer I replaced everything in my site folder except for the “wp-content” directory and the “wp-config.php” files. So I don’t think it’s a file problem. I have a feeling that it’s something in the database, but there I’m way past my level of expertise.

You’re probably right.

I found the problem. It was one of my extensions.

Before I let you go, is there a way to have the post links open in a new window instead of in the same window?

Now I’m seeing it correctly.

The only thin g left is to find which extension was breaking my browser.

Thanks for all your help.

Actually, I discovered something weird. I’m not seeing the same thing at my end that you are seeing at yours.

Maybe it has something to do with my Chrome browser.

When I open the site in Firefox it appears the same as yours.

I will conduct further research and let you know.

As for your latest suggestions, I prefer the second option better.

Please download this file and you will see what I’m getting at my end: https://www.accuratecommunications.com/illustration.jpg

Something still isn’t right.

I increased the numbers like you suggested and the photos stayed tiny.

I blew them up really big and then I get a huge margin between the photos and the copy.

Something is still wrong.

My iPhone works fine but on my computer my website has teeny weeny photos. I liked them more or less at 10% their regular size.

The website is already working.

Sorry about the inconvenience. It was working fine (sort of) when I wrote you.

This site is with Bluehost, so you know how that goes. It sucks!!!

In any case, I called them and the say it will be back up “in an hour or two”. AT this point nothing works. No front end, no FPT, no email, no Bluehost control panel.

I guess there’s nothing I can do but wait.

Sorry again and thank you for your prompt response.

I changed the CSS To the following and the situation prevails:

img.pis-thumbnail-img.alignleft.wp-post-image {
height: 10%;
width: 10%;
}

By the way, the plugin really falls apart on mi iPhone 7 Plus.

I seem to have stumbled onto a major flaw in WordPress; one that affects all my sites. It seems that large images resize but small ones don’t.

This certainly has nothing to do with the theme. How do I know? Because if I switch to the thwenty-sixteen theme the situation prevails.

Furthermore, this site (https://www.picadilloblog.com/) has a free theme (Parabola) and it has the same problem.

I’ve contacted the people at Catch Themes and the only solution that they have offered is to add CSS on a per image basis to resize the images on smartphones. But that seems like a dumb approach to me. If everything else resizes proportionally the smaller images should too.

Catch Responsive Pro. However, I have around 10 WordPress sites, with different responsive themes, and they all have the same problem.

Yes. Thank You.