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It looks like everything is OK now (1 hr later). I’m thinking that the deactivation has to propagate? I did nothing extra.

RESOLVED.

Alchymyth,

You are brilliant!

It worked!

Heartfelt thanks!!!

Tried it, but it did not work – it just made both front page widget sidebars narrower.

So, I deleted all text from Black Studio Tiny MCE sidebars, moved the TinyMCEs out of the sidebars, moved them back into the sidebars, copied back the text from my Microsoft Word the text using Word Insert icon. Same result – different sidebar widths as above. Similar to having different column widths in a two-column page.

Using Firebug, I can see that the “box” size of first front page sidebar widget (on the left) fills exactly 50% of the available full-page width (5 inches as measured on my screen of a 10 inch available total page width) and the second front page sidebar’s width (on the right) is smaller.

Major coincidence: I physically measured the two sidebar widths, and they are in the same ratio as the percentages in the style sheet above! That is, the ratio of widths seems to be exactly 51.875 to 39.0625 – which are the %-s in the code from the style.css from the twentytwelve parent!!! (my measurement in inches is not absolutely precise, but this is too much of a coincidence.) So the widths are being set in the above ratio.

As a possible fix, I added the two ratios together, divided them by two = 45.46875, and changed both %-s in twentytwelve child’s style.css to this new number, so that they are the same (both = 45.46875%) — neither of the widths change. When I change the %-s to any other number, neither width changes, which is weird, since the widths stay in the ratio of the %-s?

I cleared cache, logged out and back in, refreshed, no change, widths different as before. So, I conclude that changing the %-s in the code at the top does not affect the widths, yet the widths are in the ratio of the two %-s!!!

Do these clues help anyone tell me how to fix this? Thanks.

Sorry I couldn’t show it to you, but site is not yet up, and abn “under maintenance” plugin activated. https://www.smartgridix.com

Thanks for the idea re @media……, I will try it.

Note that I added a footer menu the day before this happened according to excellent video from “Lynda.com” — I don’t think that could have affected the second sidebar widget width, but I will check that too.

WPyogi, thanks — that worked!

Never mind – I just figured it out.

Please treat this post as resolved.

Thank u. That is helpful. I will follow up on your suggestions

I still can’t get into my old site or the same site with the new domain name. Breaking the problem down into digestible pieces:

1. I added this code to my WP-config file below the top line which is: <?php
define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://smartgridix.com&#8217;);
define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://smartgridix.com&#8217;);

2. I added this code into my twentytwelve theme/functions.php file, again below the first <?php :
update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://example.com/blog&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’https://example.com/blog&#8217;);

3. I added this code into my twentytwelve child theme/functions.php file (I had to create a functions.php file first and this is the only entry) :
<?php
update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://example.com/blog&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’https://example.com/blog&#8217;);
>
4. In my dashboard (Settings>General) of my original site, I changed the Home and Site URLs from the old URLs to the new URLs

Now, when I browse to my old domain, the old site comes up for about 1 second and then it goes to a new site that says in its header smartgridix.com in its header, but has misc. stuff on the rest of the page. When I browse to my new site name, I also get this nonsense site, but I do not get the “skipping” through the old site front page first like I do above.

Any and all help appreciated.

However, I’ve discovered that I can visit my previous domain name at my site and my WP blog shows up perfectly, but when I add on the wp-admin extension to it in order to access my dashboard and press enter, it then points me to the new domain: smartgridix.com, but with a meaningless front page, and with the following URL in the URL box:

https://smartgridix.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fixcollaborative.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

I’m not sure how to read this, but it seems that the new domain name, smartgridix.com, is not connected to my wordpress dashboard/admin login?

Thank you. Also, the codex file you sent is helpful re the section on hard-wiring the new domain names: “Edit wp-config.php”.

I am going to try that. Don’t really want the domain name to be hard-wired, but if it works, then I’ll go with it because the other approaches are so tricky (and I am a “detail” type of guy).

I was able to get my site up again with the old domain name. FYI, I have the site cloaked since it is still messy/draft-ey, using “Ultimate Coming Soon” plug-in.

Thanks, leejosepho, for the additional insights — I will look at that option too.

While I will confine myself to using Mozilla, I worry whether visitors to my prospective web-site who use MS IE will see a distorted Front Page, so I need to install a fix just in case.

All,

Thank you for your responses, suggestions, and explanations — and I thought it was me that had goofed……

OK, please ignore — when I cycled the front page template with the default template and then back again, the rest of the text posted.

I think I may have found a work-around – even though I don’t understand how it works. If I go to my Front Page (Home static), and change back to Default Page, save, refresh, and then go back to my Front Page and select Front Page Template again, the front page widgets clear.

Seems wierd and kludgey, but it works.

Anybody able to explain? Or is there an easier way to clear the FFPW?

Tx.

OK. Appreciate your patience and tolerance!

I think I will simply delete my entite WP installation and start again…luckily, I have not done a lot of work (relatively speaking) on customization, and it should not take me more than a morning to get back to a clean version. I have purged all caches as if I were Attila the Hun – I ereally want my PC to have amnesia re the last version of WP!….thanks again.