Column layout changed in Modern News theme
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Out of nowhere today, the secondary sidebar that used to appear on the left side of our blog is now appearing on the right side, to the right of the primary sidebar. I have no idea how or why this happened, and I can’t find any settings to fix this within WordPress.com admin. We’ve never even touched our CSS before, so I’m wondering if the baseline CSS for Modern News theme was inadvertently edited for some reason. Anyone have any idea what I can do here? Thanks.
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Contacted support and they don’t even know. It’s being looked into and I’ll get an email when it’s fixed. That’s about as much information as I got.
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Hi @joerominiecki, hmm. Your theme hasn’t had updates for some time now.
@melissarand can you send a link to the affected site? I’ll compare both themes to see if I can find the thread that’s tying these cases together.
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Ah, now that I look at your theme I can see the two seem to be related.
Can you let me know when this started?
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http://www.MommyArticles.com
I know the problem is being looked into by support but they still don’t have an answer as of yet. My site looked so stupid I had to change what was in that column because it looked so bad. I even though about just changing my theme but don’t feel like having to mess with resizing graphics and moving stuff around again. -
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Found the same problem with my Modern News theme yesterday. Have been advised that because my theme has (apparently) been ‘Retired’ and is no longer supported, a fix is not assured … and I that I should look to changing to a new theme. Suggests to me a case of engineered dismissal… to get me off Modern News. Changing themes is not something that I want to be rushed into. Meanwhile, whole sections of by site content are unusable because the main page width is so compressed and large images are cropped. Not happy.
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Thanks supernovia. This problem started for our blog about mid-day (eastern US) yesterday, March 6. Any help or assistance (or a fix) would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks to others for chiming in with their related issues, as well.
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My problem is now even worse. I moved a Twitter widget in the Primary Sidebar, and now the Secondary Sidebar isn’t even appearing on the site! Good grief. Please help.
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Following up: Yesterday, when I looked under “Theme Options” the drop-down box for Default Layout was not working. There was nothing in the box, no layouts to select. I went back in today, just now, and the Default Layout box is now working again, and I was able to select the correct three-column layout that we have always had. And voila! Our site layout is fixed.
If staff were working behind the scenes to restore that, whatever they did must have worked. Thanks for that. And others may want to check the Default Layout under Theme Options as well to see if that might solve your problem as well.
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@ richardeditor
I am upset as well as I have just been informed that my Tapestry theme (paid for), which I have been using for a number of years, has also been retired and I also have been advised to update to a new theme in case something else goes wrong. Personally, I just don’t want the hassle !
Does WordPress actually consider the unnecessary wasting of customers’ time ?
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Hi folks, retired themes will continue to work if you already have them activated. These were just all affected by a bug we hadn’t caught. It’s been corrected since then. Thanks for the reports!
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Have to say the Happiness Engineers did a great job in providing a workaround for my site early on Tuesday … followed by the root cause being sorted later, and the workarounds being then removed for me, to avoid conflicting with the main fix.
I can appreciate the issue that old themes, with time, end up lacking the ability to accommodate or be adapted or upgraded with new features that come to be expected.
My niggle is that WordPress are not being wholly strait with its customers by, on the one had saying the theme we buy is ours for life, whilst at the then later declaring that it will no longer be supported at some point.
(a) A ‘health warning’ should be explicitly provided with any new theme purchased. We are clearly not buying a ‘theme for life’.
(b) Clear early notification should be given to users of ‘about to be retired’ themes. Informing users that a Best Before End date for their theme has been set and provide both reasons, and the risks of continued use beyond that BBE date.
(c) Provide at least a short list of new/current themes that at least include the main functionality of the retiring theme, so that if the user is not faced with a massive theme trawling exercise, if all that is wanted is a like for like change.
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@richardeditor thank you for the feedback. I understand, particularly when you’ve paid for the theme. In cases like this where an update broke a theme, we will of course fix that. We don’t add new features into older themes though, and that’s where staff will sometimes nudge you toward updating.
Sometimes we release updated themes based on popular retired themes, so when that’s an option we’ll let you know. If you do want to change themes but you’re having a hard time finding one with the features you want, please let us know. We may be able to recommend one for you, and we’ll also get a better idea which features are important to you.
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