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Hi,

Tried both those, and neither fixed the problem

I just checked, and there’s a string of logs relating to a fatal PHP error concerning the WP Printable Invoices plugin from VisserLabs. I’ve deactivated the plugin, but the problem isn’t fixed.

Oh, and this extra ‘More details’ link doesn’t click thru to the actual product posting, but instead expands the short para of text further, which causes the text to overlap the text of the product below.

Aha!!!

I deactivated all plugins (only 3).

I switched themes to TwentyTwelve.

I then tried upgrading: success!

Switched themes back, re-activated plugins.

Everything’s absolutely fine.

Many thanks.

Gah! I give up. It’s like teaching maths to monkeys. You’re just not seeing it, refusing to see it, and stuck in your little “my way is the best way, because this is the way it’s always been done” narrow-minded view.

Close topic, delete, do whatever you have to do.

There you go again, putting words in my mouth! Who on earth said YOU have to do it? Did YOU come up with the TwentyEleven theme?

And you kind of answered my whole point: I know the people on this forum volunteer their services: they’d have to do a lot less work, and waste a lot less time on repetitive newbie questions, IF the default theme had better comments on it. The default theme ITSELF could “teach the basic things”, which would SAVE you guys from having to!

LOLOLOL

You guys are so funny!!!

I didn’t say people SHOULDN’T go learn CSS: I suggested something that might help them START learning it.

And yes, it wasn’t easy for you, and it wasn’t easy for me either. But why then should it be equally as difficult for people who come after? Do you actually resent that it might get easier for people? Will that make all your hard work seem a waste of time? ‘Course it won’t! Why do you want to prevent people from learning CSS in an easier way than you did? That’s just weird…

And esmi, you’re fantasizing: nowhere did I say that every theme developer had to do this with their themes: I suggested that WP could do it on the TwentyEleven (or whatever current) theme. Then people could refer to it. It only has to be done ONCE.

What? Scrolling too difficult for you? Poor thing… What’s wrong with having a few more lines?

It’s still easier/faster than having several windows open at once, and referring back and forth.

It’s fine if you are experienced with CSS and know exactly what you’re looking for, and how firebug etc works. But everyone has to start at the beginning sometime: why not make it easier for people? Just sayin’…

Sure, but not everyone does. Many people new to WP don’t have the knowledge or confidence to get into “developer tools”. What I’m suggesting is just a simple first step for the newbie, without them having to learn how Firebug etc works first.

RoseAndMoon, that worked perfectly! Many thanks indeed!

Robin, Thanks too for your help.

Sorry, you’re not making any sense.

How do I do a site-wide search?

What’s that plugin got to do with anything?

No. Plugin for what? There’s no WordPress plugin called that.

My stylesheet for the TwentyEleven theme doesn’t have a line 71, nor any reference I can see to a “custom” background.

Line 71 is blank.
Line 72 says body {
padding: 0 2 em;
}

Line 38 is
body {
background: #fff;
line-height: 1;
}

Is this the one?

OK, I’ve tried RoseAndMoon’s solution, as it seemed to me to be 2 images rather than one, and this method seemed to make the most sense.

Interesting results:)

It all worked, sort of… but… the actual background remains in place! So what I now appear to have is a bottom layer of my tiled pattern, a middle layer of the white background, and a top layer of my ‘feathers’ transparent png.

See https://www.akashawacha.co.uk/

So, how do I get rid of/turn off the background colour?

Try resizing your browser window.

On the example site, the pictorial elements at the sides “stick” to the WP page. On my site, the WP page simply slides over them. Extending the browser window widthways reveals that, on the example site, there seems to be another image below the bg image… ???