Customize Upgrade Altered Blog

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    deuxchicago · Member ·

    I purchased the $30 upgrade to customize fonts, colors and CSS. Upon installation, the widths of all columns and sizes of different elements changed – i.e. left aligned, collapsed margins, forced centered text. I have tried to install a different theme but experience similar issues with any theme. The only change I actually made using the upgrade were the the fonts, and I have since chosen to revert to the theme fonts.

    I would appreciate any advice in returning my blog to it’s previous state!

    Thanks,
    Laura

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    timethief · Member ·

    Hi there,
    I’ve flagged this thread so it’s gets moved to the CSS Forum for you. All CSS editing is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results. To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.

    Note: When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing.

  • zandyring · Staff ·

    Laura,
    Can you point us at specific things that are not looking right to you? Everything looks fine to me. Make sure to hard refresh (hold shift and hit the refresh symbol in your browser bar) to ensure you’re not seeing a cached version of your page. We’ll get you back on track!
    -Z

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    designsimply · Member ·

    Just checking in here.

    It sounds like you had saved custom CSS that didn’t work well with the theme you were using or that you switched to. Please reply back and mark this thread as ‘not resolved’ if you’re still having any trouble!

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    lauraleighnash · Member ·

    Hi all, thanks for the help! I must have missed the notifications until now… sorry about that!

    It was very strange, just purchasing custom upgrades without having actually made a single change either via custom css or through the easy font and color tools made everything totally out of whack – my margins disappeared, fonts were huge, link colors changed.

    I wish I had seen the suggestion to reset by deleting all of the CSS in the editor and left the “Add to Existing”. I thought the issue was conflicting custom + adding to the theme’s CSS, so I chose the option to replace everything with my own.

    I gave myself a little a crash course in CSS and ended up fixing everything one by one in the custom field by trial and error, so I guess it was a good learning experience :)

    Thanks again for the offers to help; much appreciated – and I will definitely be more on top of checking the responses next time.

    Laura

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