cstweb

Wow, fast response and spot on (of course). For reasons completely lost on me, the Astra theme had greyed out its search results templates. I am rapidly losing faith in Astra but that’s by the by: you have fixed my problem Mikko. Many thanks, Chris

Thanks bcworkz. That’s really helpful, so I need to change the settings in the code I pasted above, and in the bit you found (and have congruent percentages in the former and the latter!)

OK, I’ve got a staging site so I can change things and look at them as you say.

One real newbie question: what is the best way to do this? I am running a child theme created from twenty fifteen with the child theme configurator pro plugin and assumed that it would a good tool to use to tweak those percentages but it won’t let me edit them. I guess I could go down to the OS (Debian) and grep for “29.4118%” and for “70.5882%” and locate those entries and tweak them with an editor (after saving copies of the original files somewhere safe!)

I’m guessing there may be better, easier and safer ways to do this though. Any advice (bcworkz or anyone!) TIA and thanks bcworkz again, Chris

You’re a star CrouchingBruin, can’t believe it was that simple and that it hadn’t occurred to me. I’m dementing. I can go through now and find all my “<ul” and fix them, and fix some horribly clunky text workarounds I’d used.

I forgot to say “Thanks” last time too so “Thanks^2”! I still can’t believe that Gutenberg removed easier ways to this but you’re the cavalry! Hm, faint resemblence to the helicopter commander in Apocalypse Now in that avatar/selfie now I come to think about it!) Thanks again! Chris

That’s not doing it. Assuming that you’ve got it working on some other site, can you see what might be making the difference? Theme? Twenty fifteen is a WP theme so I’m surprised. My guess is that something built into my site is preventing that CSS impacting but, as you can tell, I’m a CSS newbie.

If I use SelectorGadget to look at the page it either shows li as the CSS, and shows it applying to all the entries in the main menu: I don’t want them moving(!). I don’t know how reliable that is as tool.

I have tried adding !important to the ul.inside lines but no effect, I tried creating a li.inside {} block: no effect (so I deleted that).

I’m baffled and frankly baffled that Gutenberg doesn’t handle indentation and outdentation simply: searching around I can see I’m clearly not the only one!

Sorry if I’m posting in the wrong place, with hindsight I can see that a new thread with a back reference is cleaner: apologies.
list-style-position didn’t seem to fix it.

The example is at: https://staging.coresystemtrust.org.uk/site-use-information/. It’s not a particularly clear one but you can see that the left margin of the title, the small text first block and the social media links are all aligned but the bullets of the unordered list hang out to the left which seems really ugly!

I put

ul.inside {
  list-style-position: inside;
}

in style.css and marked the block in site-use-information in block, advanced, additional CSS Class with ul.inside.

I don’t think I’m doing this right though as I also tried changing color in ul.inside and it’s not changing the text color so presumably there’s something I’m missing about how to change additional CSS classes. TIA, Chris

Neither of those last suggestions worked for me (11/8/19, WordPress 5.2.2 running Twenty Fifteen theme). I would love a suggestion that would enable me to use bullet/unordered list blocks in this theme and not have the bullets hang out to the left of the rest of the text (surely this is a bug in the theme or the handling of list blocks in WP?)

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Thanks for responding. I was being stupid though perhaps your documentation could be a bit clearer. I now see that all I needed was a simple general search and replace plugin. I went for “Better Search Replace” and did the job with that. Very best for your work and thanks again for replying (non-judgementally!) and helpfully.

Chris

Yes. No updates on the WP-filebase pro web site since September 2017, no blog entries and no support and, although downloads continue to work for my existing files, the plugin is now prompting for me to update my licence (but I think its calls to the licence server may now also be timing out). DON’T install this plugin. If you have advice on better altneratives, I would love to hear about them.

I didn’t think I was using a commercial version. I can’t see any records in my Email archives or notes that suggest I paid for one but I confess that doesn’t 100% exclude that I did. The plugin information just says it’s version 1.1.46 and I thought I had the basic version and was just updating it every time an update came out. Can you see differently from your records?

I didn’t think I was using a commercial version. I can’t see any records in my Email archives or notes that suggest I paid for one but I confess that doesn’t 100% exclude that I did. The plugin information just says it’s version 1.1.46 and I thought I had the basic version and was just updating it every time an update came out. Can you see differently from your records?

Ouch. This really isn’t funny. I have the same problem that I can’t create a working form whether I clone one that is working, or create a new one. This means my wordpress site is pretty fundamentally crippled. Very bad. Any help or suggestions gratefully received. I would go straight on and delete and reinstall CFtE but I don’t want to lose 20+ forms I’ve created.

I need to replace that dysfunctional page so it has been copied to https://www.coresystemtrust.org.uk/contact-us-problem-version/ for anyone who might want to use it to debug things. My faith in CFtE has been badly shaken by this. I can’t see that I or many other web site managers have time to keep checking that all our Email forms are still working and with the captcha in the system, I can’t see that it would be easy to automate a check. Bad.

Perfect. Sorry I hadn’t seen that plugin. I’ll see if I can fix a cron job to backup /wp-content/tables/* offsite daily too and then I’m 100% happy. Thanks again Tobias,

Chris

Oops, meant to say more clearly: I guess I’m just registering a wishlist item longing for such an automated backup system. I’d be happy to pay extra for it as I did to improve on the free backups for the whole site. Very best, Chris

Thanks Tobias, I’m now taking exports in JSON format and CSV of the particular table whose content is most likely to need revisions. I guess my remaining question is: is there any way you’re likely to add the option for us to set up such things automatically? I realise that automatic saving off the wordpress server isn’t a trivial issue but I think it’s helpful to be able to back up TablePress content (and format) separately from the main backups of the site as I’m likely to find myself making changes to the page that contains a TablePress table and also making changes to the TablePress table content and the two may be quite out of synch. I hope I won’t but I can imagine wanting to roll back the table content but wanting NOT to lose recent changes I made to the containing page, hence the wish to have the separate backups of the TablePress material. Am I making sense?! Thanks again, Chris