Body Content All Screwed Up

is that a different problem from the resolved one here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/body-text-alignment?replies=1 ?

if not, please do not start a new topic because you don’t have got any replies;
continue with the existing topic and add more information there.

what method have you used to integrate WordPress?

what is the main stylesheet for the blog?

Ah right. I thought my previous post got lost in the pile so didn’t want to post more information there. Will do that in future.

I have created a new theme and modified the header and footer files. The header and footer are perfect. However the main body content is not displaying correctly.

I think there is something silly I am missing and wanted a fresh pair of eyes.

is this a child theme?

you appear to have practically no css…

The theme is a copy of twentyten. So all files being edited do not change the original twentyten theme.

i have a feeling you’ve not called in the css from the parent theme. there’s practically no css anywhere in your theme!

Call in the CSS from the parent theme. I rarely use WordPress so forgive me for sounding utterly useless but how would I do that?

when you create a child theme you need to use the @import rule in the new style’s style.css file to call in the css styles that make the parent theme work.

sadly you can’t just make a full copy of a theme and install it, it has to be in the parent -child form so twentyten is the parent and your new theme is the child.

read this article on child themes. if you have any questions just post them and i’m sure we’ll be able to help

Ah, I thought I was being clever just copying the main theme. I will set up the child theme properly and hopefully then all will be good.

Thank’s for the advice. ??

Set up the child theme and called in the style.css from the twentyten parent.

I need the header and footer.php files though. It all works and uses the parent css until I include the header and footer.php files and then it ignores the css formatting.

where are you including the header and footer files?

I am placing them into the child theme folder. All I have in this folder is the header, footer php files and the style.css file.

can you post the first chunk of your css file from the child theme?

it should look like

/*
Theme Name:     Twenty Ten Child
Theme URI:      https://example.com/
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Eleven theme
Author:         Your name here
Author URI:     https://example.com/about/
Template:       twentyten
Version:        1.0
*/

with

@import url("../twentyten/style.css");

not sure why it wouldbe going all over the place if you add the header.php and footer.php files to the child theme directory…

/*
Theme Name: Twenty Ten Child
Theme URI: https://shopforhandmade.com/
Description: Child theme for the Twenty Ten theme
Author: Andrew McMaster
Author URI: https://shopforhandmade.com/about.html
Template: twentyten
Version: 1.0
*/

@import url(“https://www.shopforhandmade.com/blog/wp-content/themes/twentyten/style.css”);

right, that’ll be it: you’re @import rule is pointing to the wrong place

@import url("../twentyten/style.css");

is all it should need to be (if it doesn’t work the lose one of the dots before the first / and see if that helps…