Layout won’t save – keeps changing

I’m having a similar problem. I highlight the entire text for a post and change the color to green then I save it. After it finishes saving, some of the text will be green but most of it goes back to being black. If I mess with it long enough, putting the code for the color in by hand via html view, I eventually get the color to stick but it takes a long time to accomplish this.

Also, my bullets or numbers never show up when I make a bulleted or numbered list.

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As for your problem with Amazon affiliate links, if you’ve put them in your side bar, you may have to adjust the width of the affiliate area. Go to the Sidebar.php and look for your Amazon information. For example:

<script language="Javascript1.1" type="text/javascript">
<!--
amazon_prw_id = "V20070822/US/illumin0f-20/8100/3bb0cb73-cce7-4343-9d63-632f28c9e4ee"; amazon_prw_width = "160"; amazon_prw_height = "600";//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apn.amazon.com/gp/apn/hybrid/js/prw.js"></script>

You would adjust the 160 to a smaller number then save and view results until it shows up.

I hope this helps.

Scott
IlluminOdyssey – Adventures in thinking!

Never switch back and forth between the visual and code editors because it will mess up your code. These editors do things very differently, so you should only use one or the other. If you will be adding your own code, stick to the html editor and disable the visual editor in your dashboard profile.

Iridiax,

I appreciate your suggestion, however, a lot of sources suggest switching from visual to html in order to past code and such. I can’t imagine that WordPress would be designed with a flaw that causes issues if you switch between visual and html. But I suppose it’s possible. Can you suggest where I can get more information about this? Also, is there any way to correct this so it’s not a problem and I can still switch back and forth without any issues?

Thanks,
Scott

I appreciate your suggestion, however, a lot of sources suggest switching from visual to html in order to past code and such.

You have to switch from visual to html in order to enter your own code… But you should never then switch back to visual to look at it. The visual editor is not a preview tool, that’s what the preview button is for.

Also, is there any way to correct this so it’s not a problem and I can still switch back and forth without any issues?

Sorry, not currently.

Iridiax,

Thanks for your reply. I started a new post, changed the color of the text to green, then saved it. After it finished saving, most of the text reverted back to black, though I never used the html option. I clicked the preview button and confirmed that some of the text did stay green, but most of it wasn’t.

It appears that this is not a result of using the html option so I’m back where I started. It just doesn’t make sense. Thanks for your help. Let me know if you have any other ideas.

Sincerely,
Scott

It sounds to me like something in your stylesheet is overriding what you’re trying to do with individual posts.

mentis: What is your URL? If you have separate paragraphs of colored text, you may have to color them separately because of the inherent limitations of span tags (they can’t wrap around p, div, li, or other block-level tags). I don’t know what tag is used for text color by the visual editor (since I disabled it), but I’m guessing it’s the span tag.

Let me know what find out. Thanks.

Oops. Here’s my URL.

IlluminOdyssey – Adventures in thinking!

Since all of your posts are meant to be green, it seems, (I thought you were trying to color only some of your text) then why not set the color in your stylesheet instead of messing with span tags? (Perhaps I’m missing something. Apologies if this does not relate to the issue you’re having.)

Based on what you’re saying, the thought occurs to me that perhaps the color issue is a conflict between my stylesheet and the fact that I’m trying to change the color of all the text instead of just some of the text.

I tried changing the color of the text for my posts in my stylesheet but it didn’t change anything when I tried a test post. I didn’t have time to explore this further since I was in a rush. But thanks for bringing this to my attention. I’m still new at this but because of what you said, I’m guessing I’m on the right track.

Any idea why my bullets don’t show up? ??

Thanks,
Scott