Text not wrapping around table
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I am trying to create a page with a table on the left side and text on the right. However, the next always ends up UNDER the table, not next to it, no matter that I specified a float attribute. The thing is, it looks perfect in the visual editor when I toggle from text to visual, but when I hit Preview or publish the page, the text does not wrap. I even tried upgrading to premium, and added some code to the CSS sheet, and still no success. I’m using the Adele theme.
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Hi there,
I’m sorry to hear about all the difficulty you’ve had with this. Positioning is one of the most difficult aspects of web development (there are over 5 different properties that can affect where an item appears in a web browser) So this does not surprise me. I’m willing to take a try at this and see if we can’t get it to work. A couple questions to start with:
1. Is this something that is happening to many posts or just to one post in particular?
2. Can you give a link of one or more occurrence of this issue?
3. On a page that is having the issue, can you pull that page up on at least two different browsers (Chrome or Firefox and Internet Explorer or Safari) If you can’t do this, I can. Sometimes the browser is the problem because it interprets the code wrong. (There are ways to get around that, though too.)
I’ll be subscribed to this topic so we can work back and forth to hopefully get this resolved.
Kind regards,
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Hi Jason
sorry for the delay and thank you for your offer for help. I actually can’t recreate it for you as I’ve changed themes since then, and that seemed to have been one major culprit. It wasn’t happening on all pages, just when I used HTML code to put in tables. When I added images and put them on the left or right, the text wrapped beautifully around them. But when I did the same with a table, even when floating left or right, the text wouldn’t wrap. The theme was Adele. I since have switched themes to Apostrophe, and there I could get it to work, as long as I used the regular “paragraph” default font. When I tried to use any of the Heading fonts, it went back to not wrapping. I can understand that, because the whole floating thing is based on it being a paragraph of text.
I’m happy to say that I’ve meanwhile found an even better workaround, and maybe it’s good to share here for anyone else who struggles with tables. Instead of using a table, I used a div code to create two columns.
<div style=”width: 60%; padding: 0 10px 0 0; float: right;”>
Above that I have all my table code, and below that the text of what I want to the right of the table. If you’d like to take a look what I created with it, here is the link: http://evamelusinethieme.com/books-2/
Thanks again. I guess the lesson is when things aren’t working as you want it could very well be the theme.
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Awesome! I’m glad you got it! Using the div code is a great option and thank you for sharing your solution so others can benefit!
Happy blogging!
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It’s my pleasure, and thank you for your help. Can you help me with another question or do I have to start a new thread? My theme (apostrophe) does not display a date on the blog posts, which I hate. But I like most everything else. So, wondering if you can manually turn them on, but I’d be happy to post a new thread if you want me to.
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I honestly don’t know what you’re supposed to do. But I’m happy to answer the question.
It looks like the date is appearing in that little blue tag at the top of the post just above the title:
Could you give me an example of a page where it’s not appearing?
Kind regards,
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My theme (apostrophe) does not display a date on the blog posts, which I hate. But I like most everything else. So, wondering if you can manually turn them on, but I’d be happy to post a new thread if you want me to.
There is no manual turn-on. Themes are coded to either display date near to the post titles or not to display one at all. Setting that aside, note that the date is embedded into every post title URL, regardless of theme, and we cannot change permalink structure on any wordpress.com hosted blogs.
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yikes! I must be blind! I think I was looking at a newer post where it’ll just say “2 days ago” and I must have totally missed it as I was looking for a date. Perfect, now I’m happy. Ok, since we are on it, but I think I already know the answer: Another thing I don’t like about Apostrophe is that on the home page it shows a list of all my blog posts, but no images. Just that weird system image. Is there any way to make it pick the first image from the post? I suppose the answer is no since you said the themes are hard coded and that’s the way it is. I’m fairly new to WordPress, coming from Blogger, and there I was able to alter that kind of thing by changing the HTML.
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A themes here at wordpress.OM are shared and we bloggers cannot edit the underlying templates, as every blog wearing the same theme is using the same template, which is displayed on the live demo site.
Consult the theme description page here https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/apostrophe/ and scroll down to Featured Images there.
See also https://en.support.wordpress.com/featured-images/
Then see here too https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/
On the home page it shows a list of all my blog posts, but no images.
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Sorry, the theme is called Semicolon, not Apostrophe
We provide support here only for WordPress.COM hosted blogs. He every theme is unique.
We do not provide support for WordPress.ORG software installs.
Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/I’m sorry but we cannot provide accurate answers to any blogger who fails to provide the exact URL starting with http:// for the exact blog they refer to so we can verify where it is hosted. Please do that now.
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He was meant to be Here. ( I apologize for my bilingual keyboard glitches and will log out and fix it.)
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Sorry. http://evamelusinethieme.com. I did state it further up.
Thanks very much for your link re featured images. I think that is exactly what I’m looking for. Will check it out and get back to you.
Just as an aside, what does it take for me to move from wordpress.com to wordpress.org?
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You will be able to get pictures into that home page and that will certainly improve the look of your front page.
You want to leave us? :(
Just giving you a hard time. :) There’s a special page that has all the info on switching over: https://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-to-a-self-hosted-wordpress-site/
But let us know if you have any questions. I have multiple self-hosted, and wordpress.com hosted sites. There are pros and cons for both.
Kind regards,
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timethief – thank you SO much for the link about featured images. I had NO idea that’s where you set them! With my old theme, it just automatically picked the first image in the blog post so I never worried about it. This is so much better, getting to pick a specific one. A new world has opened to me:-)
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Jason – I’ll look at the link, thanks. It just seems like all the pros move to self-hosted sooner or later, giving you more control I suppose? But you also pay more for it? I think so far I’m pretty happy with .com. You guys have been awesome. Seems like I can do a lot more than I thought!
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Yes, that is true, there is a greater degree of customization through more plugin options or if you want to write your own PHP, but less support and more complicated setting up your own hosting. If you do everything yourself it doesn’t have to be that much more expensive but if you pay someone to manage and do any customization that can cost you.
You can do a lot with WordPress.com. If there is ever anything you want to do, search for it on the forums and don’t hesitate to ask. With a Premium account you can even alter the CSS which gives you a lot of control over look and style of the site.
Hope this helps!
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