The customizing upgrade has destroyed my Pinboard layout
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I paid for the upgrade and then attempted one change in the css (from a post on the premium forum for Pinboard):
#masthead {
display: block
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1178px;
}Next, I clicked save and suddenly it destroyed my blog. I then deleted that change and saved again. But, it’s still the same (ruined). It now doesn’t look like pinboard at all (no columns). It’s quite a mess.
I’m sure it’s fixable, but what can I do to get pinboard back?
blog is at http://honeytoasted.com
or samredman.wordpress.comHere is a screen capture of my blog prior to using the “upgrade” for customizing:
http://samredman.com/oldpinboardlook
I sure will appreciate your help in getting it back.
Sam
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I just now canceled the upgrade and it did return my blog to the pinboard look (without any customization):
Just to make sense of what I posted earlier, here is a screen cap of what my blog looked like with the customization upgrade in place:
http://samredman.com/afterpinboardcustomizeupgrade
Should I merely order the upgrade again? Or is this not fixable?
Sam
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Well, I just now got a refund on both the customizing upgrade and then the Pinboard theme itself. It’s no good without the ability to customize.
If anyone has a solution to the Pinboard customizing dilemma I would gladly repurchase.
Sam
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There are very few Volunteers who assist with CSS editing. It’s Sunday and none appear to be logged in at this time.
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@samredman, I was out of town, and not having access to premium themes, I’ve never worked with Pinboard, and since you have canceled your Custom Design and the theme, I can’t say what went wrong.
I can see several things in the CSS you listed above that could blow up the Pinboard design though, such as changing from display: inline-block; to display: block; and also setting a width other than 100%. Not knowing what exactly you were trying to accomplish, I can’t tell you what to do exactly, and the point is moot since you have canceled everything.
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@thesacredpath Thanks for your response. Before making any css change, I copied the entire css text and pasted it into a software program called, Ultra-edit, so I would have a control backup. Then I made the change on the wordpress.com online editing tool and clicked the Save button. Upon seeing the totally ruined layout, I first removed the change and saved again (same result). Then I copied my backup css from Ultra-edit into the online tool and saved (same “destroyed blog” result). I still have my saved backup copy of the css in Ultra-edit and will provide it, if it would be of any value for perusal at this time.
Upon retrospect, I recall that the “messed up” version was showing as the automatic preview on the online tool prior to any changes in css. The reason I hadn’t thought to question any css changes to be able to work was because I had first made some changes in font (with menu selections), saved, and found that those variations had been effected without difficulty.
I will later today repurchase both the premium Pinboard theme and the Upgrade and retest (I like the theme and would love to be able to have it to function properly). I will post results again here.
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Then I made the change on the wordpress.com online editing tool and clicked the Save button. Upon seeing the totally ruined layout, I first removed the change and saved again (same result). Then I copied my backup css from Ultra-edit into the online tool and saved (same “destroyed blog” result).
If you mean you pasted the entire stylesheet, then that’s your problem. See this post of mine:
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Did you have the “start from scratch” selection activated? If so, then that would be what caused the problems.
At WordPress.com, it is always best to keep the “add to existing…” selection checked and then add only the specific rules and only the specific declarations you are adding or changing to the CSS. Then your CSS will override the current like bits in the original theme CSS.
Read the post that @justpi referenced. I’m confident that the problem you experienced was simple to fix. Things at WordPress.com work a little differently when it comes to CSS editing.
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Thanks for your replies. The post from @justpi, while most likely is quite useful in other situations, actually isn’t relevant to my problem. He didn’t read my post or just didn’t understand what I wrote. I experienced the problem long before I pasted in any backup copy of the css (that was merely a last ditch effort to try to fix the already “messed up” situation). My problem occurred simply after pasting in the change (and saving) which I obtained from the premium forum and it was not corrected after I then deleted that added css code and saved again. Only then did I try pasting in my backed up css code (and saving), which, of course, didn’t work either.
But I think the problem existed prior to me doing any css work, because when I first accessed the upgrade, I was seeing the preview iteration in the same corrupted form as I eventually achieved.
But, irrespective of any of those situations, I have been refunded fully and in a few days I plan to go through the process again with a newly purchased Pinboard theme and the Customization upgrade. Maybe just a relaunch will give me a version without those same problems.
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Sorry this happened to you! It’s really hard to say what exactly went on, but based on the screenshots you provided, it almost seems like you switched themes and applied an update to custom CSS that was intended for the Pinboard theme at the same time. Anyway, we can’t really tell now that you’ve removed the theme and the customizations from before, but as long as you have the right backup CSS then I think you should be able to get back to the previous state pretty easily! I’m happy to help you with this once you’re ready to give it another try.
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