gholbrow

It’s a miracle! Well, maybe not a miracle, but it works very neatly, thank you!

Gwen

Changed the front page to use a different gallery, because I could not get the Coblocks masonry gallery to work (aligns all the way left on the page, and no ability to add images), but the off-center page is still available here: https://gwendolynholbrow.com/old-home/. The problem is probably with the Coblocks plugin. Still, if anyone has a fix for this, I would love to hear it.

Further progress: Adding more links on the right end of the top-level menu, even though they have no content, pushes the items further to the left, to the point where the “+” in the dropdown box can be seen and used. A kludgy workaround, but it will do until this bug is fixed.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by gholbrow.

Weirdly, since my computer has a touch screen, I can get the entire menu item dropdown with “+” to appear by dragging the block to the left with my finger on the screen, even though I can’t do it with the cursor on the slider. Looks like the add submenu item dropdown box needs to coded to stay inside its block container somehow.

I am having the same problem, using wp 6.1 and TT3. Plugins don’t affect it. After creation of the submenu block, there is no way to add links to the submenu.

The dropdown box that would give the option of adding items to the menu does not contain a “+”. The dropdown box appears to exceed the width of the block it’s in, and there is a slider at the bottom of the header block that should allow viewing of the part off screen, but clicking on it causes the dropdown box to vanish, so that there’s no way in. Any suggestions? Thank you.

There are a lot of people struggling with the same problem. Making header height a theme option seems like it would be simple and would meet a need. I would love to see that in a future update.

Even after I got the front-page header the size I wanted while logged in, I couldn’t get it that way while not logged in. Finally beat it into submission with this:

/* Front Page header height half*/
@media screen and (min-width: 30em) {
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-image .custom-header-media,
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-video .custom-header-media,
	.home.blog.has-header-image .custom-header-media,
	.home.blog.has-header-video .custom-header-media {
		height: 66vh;
	}
}
@media screen and (min-width: 48em) {
	.has-header-image.twentyseventeen-front-page .custom-header, 
	.has-header-video.twentyseventeen-front-page .custom-header, 
	.has-header-image.home.blog .custom-header, 
	.has-header-video.home.blog .custom-header {
     	height: 50%;
}
	}
@media screen and (min-width: 48em) {
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-image .custom-header-media, 
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-video .custom-header-media, 
	.home.blog.has-header-image .custom-header-media, 
	.home.blog.has-header-video .custom-header-media 
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-image .custom-header-media,
	.twentyseventeen-front-page.has-header-video .custom-header-media,
	.home.blog.has-header-image .custom-header-media,
	.home.blog.has-header-video .custom-header-media {
		height: 66vh;
	}}

Finally found what was breaking the styling: when all inline styling from content was removed, everything works as it should.

I disabled all plugins and tried it default themes 2015-17 with no success.
Whatever page became the posts page lost its formatting.

Next, I made a new index.php for the child theme and tried copying and editing some of the php from the beginning of my category.php page into it, since the category page worked. At some point the Recent Posts page appeared properly, but at that point it was identical to Twentyseventeen index.php, and after I disabled the child index.php, the page still appeared correctly. So the frustrating mystery was never solved, but now the formatting is mysteriously correct. I’ll take what I can get.

Thank you for giving it your attention.

For comparison, the Materials menu item is a category page, and formatting works okay for everything there.

I’m aware of the pasted-in css in the content, but that is not the problem. The site title, subtitle, menus, post titles, etc,. all lose their formatting. If you click on a post-title, date, etc,. and view the single post, the formatting is as it should be. I’ve made that long pre-formatted post private to remove it from the confusion. Thank you for looking.

Should have also mentioned that turning any other page into the posts page yields the same result.

Whoops, sorry, that was a Bluehost option I was unaware of. Should be visible now.

I overrode it with important! tag, but I would still like to know where it is being generated. Thanks.

I solved this by hardcoding the title into the front=page.php.