davidhansard

Nope, can’t remember the name of the plugin I deleted.

I’ll have to be more carefully in choosing plugins in future.

Ah, done it!

I de-activated and deleted a plugin and it sorted out the problem.

Can’t remember which plug-in though… am going to have a think, and hopefully post the name of the plug-in here for future readers. After that I’ll mark this as resolved.

Thanks esmi.

I tried that. No luck, unfortunately.

I’m starting to think the database has some sort of error. It now doesn’t seem to matter which theme I’m using, the site has these problems.

I have also just created a test page. It is formatted incorrectly (compared to the perfectly fine home page).
https://www.davidhansard.net/test-page/

hmmm.

I suppose the problem in my solving this is also related to the fact that I’m new to WordPress – and don’t actually know where to look for the html file which lays behind say the test page.

Very much appreciated. Yes, earlier I was too hasty and didn’t spot that it was basically well on the way to being fixed. Just fiddled a bit more with the CSS and I seem to have sorted it. I initially didn’t realise the central part (as I call it) was made up of a number of elements: wrap, content, etc.

I will also go through the CSS more methodically and make sure I have it all in order.

Thank you alchymyth for your time and patience. And I will keep w3schools in mind for future changes to the site.

dh

Thanks for your help alchymyth, although I don’t know what you mean by shorthand property.

I have tried what you suggested, but no luck.

Regarding the scope of the forum, I would have thought a ‘How-to and troubleshooting’ part of a support forum to be the ideal place to ask how to do something, especially after trying oneself for many hours. It seems, from other posts on this forum, this is exactly the sort of thing people are asking. So I am slightly confused by what you said. I don’t need teaching, just a tip or two in case I have been overlooking something obvious.

I have already visited the links you kindly suggest.