steve_drake

Thanks people.
I did try commenting out the media queries CSS but the little widget at the top was still there – maybe because 2012 is ‘mobile first’?
Anyway, I really don’t want the media queries so I’ll look at another theme [unless somebody has a solution].
Thanks again.
steve

I have the same workflow – I can mess things up [which I often do!] locally and not affect the real site.
I think I’ll just have to live with the inconvenience of editing the CSS within wp not updating immediately – maybe it’ll sort itself out.

First off, it’s not ‘Page Speed Optimization’ – the problem still persists. I’m thinking it’s not host related.
kmessinger – thanks for the reply. It’s not a child theme css file. I don’t have a theme as such as the whole site was borne out of an Adobe WordPress/Dreamweaver/MAMP tutorial with no established theme so the theme, such as it is, evolved from that! There are no updates to the theme apart from what I do. Looking back, I should have started with a normal theme but I’m too far gone now.
Anyway, I don’t think it’s theme related as this hasn’t always been a problem – it’s quite a recent development.
Editing the CSS file and then uploading it does make the site change almost immediately. I guess I could work this way but sometimes I just need to change a tiny bit of CSS …
steve
[puzled!]

An update. Cloudflare on Dreamhost has been disabled for a week now but the problem persists. I tried changing the body background colour from the current grey to black and it won’t stick.
Back in Dreamhost just now, I noticed I had ‘Page Speed Optimization’ enabled so I’ve disabled that and will report back – I bet you can’t wait!!!!

Hi Christine,
I’ve left CloudFlare Services disabled and I’ll see how things go – as I say, it may tale a while for CloudFlare Services to be disabled.
Thanks again.
steve

Hi Josh and Christine,
Thanks again for responding.
I’ve restarted my Mac and looking at my site, the CSS has stuck which kind of suggests an issue my end!
This is a recent problem: previously, whenever I changed the CSS in wp-admin the changes took affect immediately.
There are no active ‘cache’ plug-ins and I’m 100% sure I’m editing the right theme CSS file.
Christine’s answer got me thinking. Not long ago I opted in for a new facility at my web host [Dreamhost] called CloudFlare Services. I disabled this and went into wp-admin and did a quick ‘n’ easy CSS edit [body background colour from #CCC to #FFF] but my site didn’t change background colour so maybe it’s not that [or disabling CloudFlare Services takes time!].
One thing I’ve noticed is that if I’m not active in wp-admin for any length of time I’m asked to log-in again – but maybe that’s normal.
steve

Hi Josh,
Thanks for the reply.
I had thought of that and tried it on my Mac but to no avail. To check it’s not a safari issue, I’ve looked at my site in Firfox and it’s the same [I can see the old CSS in Firebug] so I don’t think it’s a problem my end. Looking at the CSS file in wp-admin, the changes are there but not being applied – it’s like an old copy of the CSS file is being used.
steve

Right, not sure what happened there [nothing that I did] but it seems to have sorted itself out. It’s as if any changes to the CSS done in Dashboard > Appearance take about 45 minutes to work.

Thanks esmi,
The thought of using a conditional comment for IE7 had crossed my mind but I’m struggling to find/edit the CSS to use within that conditional comment.
I’ve tried playing with the container that contains the left and right content plus the CSS for the left content and right content [if that makes sense!]. Nothing seems to put the sidebar where it should be.
I’m on a Mac and using Adobe Browser Lab to ‘preview’ pages in Windows browsers.
Any ideas?
Thanks again for replying.
steve
P.S. I was thinking that maybe the XHTML 1.1 doctype was throwing IE7 – that’s something I can check later.

The ‘tabindex ‘ is sorted but …
Bringing the ‘bad’ sidebar code into Dreamweaver and looking at each error li [list items] they seem to be okay: each error li starts a ‘widget’ in the sidebar and there’s a closing li for each one.
Maybe I’m being dense but I don’t see what’s wrong. Any ideas?
steve

Thanks again for your help alchymyth.
I’m not using XAMP; on a Mac so I use MAMP.

Thanks – that did the trick.
I know I’m cheating by using Dreamweaver but I’m a WordPress novice so need the visual assistance Dreamweaver gives me when adjusting CSS, building things for the sidebar, etc.
I take my hat off [if I had one] you all who do this in code only without any visual assistance.

Hi,
Thanks for the reply.
The error message [in the Properties tab in Dreamweaver CS5] says:
“Marked invalid because it’s an overlapping or unclosed tag.
If the display looks correct it is safe to delete these tags”.
I’m no PHP expert but comparing it to other PHP on the page it looks right. Below is the code for the first part of the post box area until the comment code starts.

<div class="box">
<h2 <?php post_class('posttitle'); ?>><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
        <p class="metablock"><span class="meta">Posted on
          <?php the_time('F j, Y'); ?>
          by <?php the_author_posts_link(); ?>

Maybe a typo on my part?

Thanks alchymyth,
I now understand the bit about adding the existing posttitle class [looking at your sample].
However, when using the sample code I get an error [missing a closing bracket or quote] and PHP isn’t my strong point.

Okay, the code below partially works [it isolates the category] but any CSS applies to all the content in the post whereas I just want to style the post title according to category.

<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
		<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"> <?php the_title(); ?></a>

Any ideas? What did I do wrong?
Thanks
steve
P.S. I’m working locally [thankfully] so you won’t see the above on the live site.