Problem with edit screen WP 5.8

  • When I go into an edit screen (either for a New Post or to edit/update an already published post), there are three dropdown panels at the bottom of my screen: Options for The Writer theme, Yoast SEO, and Custom CSS. These have always been there, and I use the first two of them on every post. For the three years that I’ve had my website, these panels have always moved automatically to the bottom of any text I pasted onto the edit screen. I’ve never had a problem with them before.
    But yesterday, for the first time since version 5.8 was installed, I tried to create a New Post. (I last published some other posts about a month ago, and everything worked fine.) But it’s as though the dropdown panels were frozen in place: of the text that I tried to paste, the first few paragraphs are above the three panels, then a paragraph or two is actually covered by the panels, and then the rest of the text is below that. There is no way to see or edit the text that is below the panels. I have found no way to get rid of these panels, and no way to move them to the bottom of the text, which of course is where they should be.
    Then I went into the edit screen for a couple of posts I’ve already published, and found the same thing was true: these three dropdown panels now cover a portion of the text, making it inaccessible for changes, additions, and so on. Fortunately, when I view these posts, either on my website or in View/Preview mode, they look the way they should, with no missing or garbled text. But I can’t publish any new posts until I get this problem fixed and am able to edit them properly.
    Thanks for any help you can give me.

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  • I have Yoast SEO installed on my test site, but it looks ok to me.
    Are you using any plugin to show the Custom CSS panel on the editor screen? If so, you can try turning it off to see if that’s causing the issue.

    It looks like The Writer Theme is not a free theme available on www.ads-software.com. I recommend getting in touch with the theme’s support if the issue is not solved. We can’t replicate the problem here because we don’t have a way to recreate the same environment as you.

    Thread Starter peabody68

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    Thank you for your response. I think The Writer Theme is generating not only its own dropdown panel, but also the Custom CSS panel. Unfortunately, Obox (the maker of The Writer Theme) has not provided support since 2017, and also has not updated the theme since then. (Yet the theme continues to be sold by Envato, including an additional fee for what they call “extended support.”) I have stayed with the theme until now because I really like the layout/visuals, and have not found these anywhere else. My hope was that since this problem did not arise until WP version 5.8, perhaps there would be a WordPress workaround.

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