brynn2

Would you please tell me if there is a better place to post this?

Thanks

I found this in the Blogrid stylesheet, which I think might be causing the non-100% width, at least for the main menu. But I’m not positive. I really can only understand the most basic html. CSS is a bit of a stretch.

.center-main-menu{float:left;width:100%;max-width:70%}

Could I have found the right part of the code? I think it means the menu is only using 70%.
Yes???

Is there some code that sets the width for the whole page, rather than parts of it?

Thanks again for your patience.

I’ve been doing additional research while waiting for a reply, and I notice in the description of the Blogrid theme, it says it’s a full page width by default. But it’s not on our site. Since it’s in maintenance mode, and you won’t be able to see it, I made a screenshot for you.

Notice the menu at the top does not extend to the left edge (or at least close to it) and while it looks like there is room for the Log In link on the same line with all the other links, for some reason it goes to the line below. Also notice the white edge of the blog post does not extend to the edges on either side.

Here’s a link to the image: https://drive.proton.me/urls/3P87YJHRTM#WWHOZWf8fqIi

Is there some way to take advantage of this space? Thanks for your help.

Ok, thanks for the info. I will pass it all along, so my co-admin can contact her host.

Hhmmm….. Thanks for your reply.

From what little I could understand of the related message thread I found when I was searching earlier, that person started by looking towards their host/server tools. But it did not solve the problem.

I can only understand those messages in the most general, even simplistic way. But it sounds like they saw the issue, not so much as a problem, or bug with WP, but more of a deficiency. It sounds like they were asking for or encouraging WP to create tools to help with this issue, because all of the OP’s server and host-related tools could not solve the problem in a satisfying way.

While they apparently were dealing with hundreds of images, I only deal with several per blog post. Even so, it’s quite an annoying problem!

Not to mention, my co-admin and I don’t have the technical knowledge to follow the steps they described, as needed to fix the issue. I don’t understand whether the OP meant they had to follow those steps once per day, for example, or once for every image, or exactly how those steps should be used. We certainly do not have the expertise to write a script, for example, to complete all the steps.

Well anyway, I will contact my co-admin (who owns the site) and ask about contacting her host. Perhaps they might have some way to at least reduce the amount of time for the delay?

Do you think that’s possible – that the delay time could be reduced? Or do you rather think it’s probably a lost cause?

Thanks again for your patience and comments!

Our site is still in maintenance mode, since we’re still building it. All anyone could really see right now is a front page with one image and one in-progress post.

“Object cache plugin”….. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly what that is, or does. I’m not very tech-oriented. But based on our plugins’ names and descriptions, I don’t think so. None of our plugins sound like they cache anything.

• One of them tells the last time a user was logged in
• one provides google fonts
• one creates the maintenance mode
• one to add avatars to the profile
• the previously mentioned theme plugin
• the last one allows to use SVG files for images

I can give their exact names, but I’m not sure if that’s allowed. But it doesn’t sound like we have such a plugin, does it?

Thanks again.

Sorry for my delay in answering. Thanks raytan.

What I really wanted is the image on the right and text on the left. But at least with your instructions I can at least put the image on the left. Maybe I can find a way to apply your instructions to put the image on the right. Let me peruse the tutorial closely, and work on it, and I’ll post again with my results.

Thanks again!

Maybe a different question.

The block that comes closest to working is columns. If I could just indent my entire paragraph by something like 100 to 200 px, I think it would be fine. But the only control I’ve found for indenting does not just indent, it also adds a bullet. Is there a way to inset a paragraph without bullets?

Thanks again ??

Oh wait — I think I got it…..

Edit — Well, not so much. I found the Media width control in the Settings area. But it will not go any lower than 15….which seems strange, because the image is currently still stretched to approx 100 px wide.

Maybe such a narrow image just won’t work with this kind of block?

Hhmm, I found the Media and Text block, and inserted it. I added the text and the image, but the image is too big. The image is an odd size 30 px wide x 300 px high. I used the round circle handle to try to size it down. But I can’t get it down to the proper size. It’s still over twice its proper size, and won’t go any smaller. It’s 4 or 5 times taller than the text paragraph too.

Oh sorry. I’m pretty sure it’s a block editor (because when I start a new paragraph, it prompts me to choose a block type). But where can I look to find out for sure?

We have Superb Themes Premium, but we have not installed any specific theme yet.

Thanks for the link. I’ll check it out ??

I wonder if you could avoid this issue by simply stating in the product’s description that it uses 2 other plugins. Then your new users would not be surprised by it, which causes them to become suspicious of the product.

Btw, we finally fixed the other issue that started around the same time as we installed LightStart. We don’t know if it caused the problem. But in any case, it’s no longer an issue ??

Oh, thank you very much for the link to that article! That will be very helpful, I really appreciate it ??

Oh gosh! Like the user in that topic, I do not have coding skills. And that topic is closed to replies now, so I can’t post there, to reach developers.

However, I can promise to do this much. When we get to the place where we are ready to test, I will make sure that we test that specific gallery, and find out whether, in the couple of years since that topic, perhaps this feature has been added.

Then I will come back to this topic, and post whatever we learn. I will post our whole experience, in case we test more than one gallery plugin.

(In reading all the “before you post your first message” info, it says that topics are closed after….iirc, 5 months. I’m not sure if we will get that far in 5 months, but if this topic is still open, I will definitely post an update.)

Thank you very much for your reply!