Richard Patterson

Thanks again. I admit I am somewhat confused about all this. My original problem was that I had the left column in a Sticky Block (using the plug-in). It contains a list of topics which are links to other pages. The right hand column retains the post text, which can be much longer. I did not want the sidebar list of topics to scroll off the screen when the reader scrolled to read the text. I thought it was fine, until I realized that if I resized the window to a smaller height, the bottom of the list in the left sidebar was never visible. I thought the best solution would be for the list to have its own scroll bar and scroll separately within the frame of the list. Since there appears to be no way to explicitly add a scroll bar to a block to enable it to scroll within a limited space on the window, I was wondering if there was any way to achieve this.

I appreciate your patience and efforts to help.

Thanks. I haven’t yet ventured into CSS coding or customizing, but I may try this. The only problem I see is that this depends on setting a fixed maximum pixel height for the class. Ultimately what I think I would like is to set it to scroll whenever the window causes overflow. Would there be a function which set the max-height of the block to a function of the detected window height?

Thank you. I got it.

Nevermind. I found the place to change the setting, although it appears to me that setting the bottom margin for a paragraph block does not do anything. Setting the bottom padding does, though. I’m not sure what the difference between padding and margin is for a paragraph block.

I do think the documentation needs to be updated or at least clearer.

Thanks, but I can’t find the global Styles settings for the Paragraph block. When I go to Appearance>Editor I don’t see anything about Blocks. It just takes me to place that says Design and lets me choose whether to edit Templates or Template Parts. The documentation says something about a ?“half-shaded circle icon at the top right-hand corner of the screen” when you go to Appearance > Editor, but I don’t see any such icon.

I am using the Twenty Twenty Three Theme. Can you show me how to get to the Styles setting for the Paragraph Block.

I can’t find any reference in the documentation to “scrollable content” or “scrollable” or “scroll bars.” I have two columns next to each other and cannot figure out how to make them scroll separately. They only seem to scroll together as the whole page scrolls.

Actually I have a sticky header above the columns that does not scroll. Both the columns scroll under it. I added a Sticky Block plug-in to make the left column stay where it is, but if the window is not big enough the bottom of the column is never visible, and I would like for it to be scrollable on its own.

I think I solved my paragraph spacing problem on some pages by just setting each paragraph’s margin. Is there a way to set the default top or bottom margin for all paragraphs globally so I don’t have to set it every time I add a paragraph?

Thanks. This is what I have been doing but I get differences in spacing of the header and the sidebar between the pages and the posts depending on whether or how I add the post title block to the posts.

The columns turn into a stack when the screen is below a certain width, but frankly at this point I don’t care what the website looks like on a phone. I am interested primarily in how it looks on a desktop screen.

Thanks. I resolved the issue I was having with the width of the issues. I should have marked this as resolved.

Thanks.

I am not able to provide a link to the website because I am building it on my Mac desktop with Local.? I am working with WordPress 6.2 and the Twenty Twenty Three theme with minimal plugins and the latest version of Local.

I think I have solved the problem I was having with paragraph spacing, but I honestly could not tell you how.

There is one issue I still have with padding around elements. I have a header with an image and a navigation block. The theme seems to put padding above the image that I don’t want and I cannot figure out how to get rid of it. The blocks for my header are all set to zero padding. Is this just something built into the theme that would require coding to eliminate?

Thanks. I reactivated the plugin and now it works. I have no idea what else has changed.

Thanks again. I am probably going to just leave the posts as posts. I am under the impression that changing a post to a page will alter is URL and break all the links to it in the website. For me this could mean manually resetting hundreds of link. Does the Post Type Switcher plugin deal with this potential problem?

Thanks. I apparently installed the BlockMeister plugin and had forgotten about it. I’ll try contacting them.

I can now see how to enable comments on a page. If I wanted to convert 36 posts to pages, is there a simple way to do that? I doubt that it is worth the trouble at this point, but do you think I should use pages for the entire website if I do not want things to be prioritized in terms of the date they were created?

Thanks again. This is helpful, but the distinction between pages and posts seems a bit arbitrary if pages can be set to allow comments. I’d be interested in knowing where I can set this. The idea that pages are “forever live” seems to imply that posts go away after some time. The distinction is simply a matter of priority in the structure of the website. While I understand that themes are meant to make it easier to build a website, I am never comfortable with an application that assumes it knows better than I do how I want a website to look and work.