BadBishop

Thank you George, I had misunderstood what was going on. In my defence, that’s a lot of scrolling to get to the posts with the default template. As you guessed, I would prefer a impler listing so I’m now investigating the options.

Thanks again for pointing the way.

Alan, you’re right! Not sure why I was blaming the image gallery (my apologies to it), it is indeed the table plugin that was causing the issue. Rather, I had not configured the plugin’s tablet/phone settings so that it shows fewer columns on small screens, although I still think it’s a bit naughty of it to splurge over the screen like that.

Any, problem fixed and many thanks.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 7 months ago by BadBishop.

I fully agree with the consideration (or even recommendation) about the host, I really don’t want the hosting company to make this sort of decision for me. Having said that, it is only in the past few months that 1&1 has been noticeably intrusive, and the other problem I had with them was a glitch rather than big Brother type behaviour. I’ll see how it goes for now …

Very useful info that WordPress doesn’t write “Permanently active”. The culprit is IONOS, as that text arises from a file mu-plugins\1and1-wordpress-assistant\inc\auto-updater.php

I guess I have to wade through their code to see if/how to turn it off (there is nothing evident in the UI, though I’ll look harder there too).

Thanks to all for your help, I’ll keep this open a couple of days in case I have follow up questions.

Thank you James, I think you’re on to something. Actually, I haven’t used any filters (not being at all familiar with them) but the hosting company (1&1) has put a load of stuff under the wp-content/mu-plugins directory and that includes some filters.

I’ll need to work through the files to see what they’re doing, but it does look like a promising line of enquiry.

Thanks again for the suggestion and the link. I’ll update with the results.

• This reply was modified 4 years ago by BadBishop.

Thank you for the tip about the Site Health, it does give a somewhat worrying message (click for screenshot) although that appears to say that updates couldn’t be happening, which is the opposite of what I’m seeing (unless that screen is talking about updates not related to plugins?).

The “Passed Tests” section contains this section about plugins:

Plugin and theme auto-updates appear to be configured correctly

Plugin and theme auto-updates ensure that the latest versions are always installed.

which is true, and what I’m trying to avoid.

I used not to have any plugin manager plugins installed, but I tried the “Easy Updates Manager” to see if it would solve the problem for me – it didn’t make any difference so I have disabled it.

The plugins I have installed can be seen here and here. Try as I might, I can’t change the “Permanently Active” status of the automatic updates, and it used not to behave like this.

Thank you for looking at this.

Thank you Steven, good idea. I’m somewhat removed from IONOS (as I only administer WP, not the host) but I will ask the host admin to contact them.

Thank you for the explanation, Joy. I suspect that the solution will be tricky and not really worth the time, but I will follow up on Lisa’s suggestion and ask in the theme forum. Thanks to you both for replying.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by BadBishop.

User joy in the other forum indicated the reason for the behaviour, I guess my question in this forum is how easy it would be to change it?

Updating to 3.1.5 worked wothout problems, and without having to change any file permissions. Looks like a problem specific to 3.1.4 – anyway, it is resolved for me now.

No, problem is still occurring for me.

Marking as resolved, successfully using alchymyth’s code.

Many thanks alchymyth, that solves it completely.

For completeness (in case anyone else comes across it), I should add that my first attempts (I copy&pasted a later version in my first post) did have a /div, but in the wrong place:

<div id="comments">

<?php
if ( post_password_required() ) : ?>

	<p class="nopassword"><?php _e( '', 'twentyeleven' ); ?></p>

</div>
<?php
	return;
	endif;
?>

and that also sent the widget to the bottom of the page.