Text Align Left Not Working

The centring is set via a CSS property that has a general effect on all paragraphs. Since you have activated the Autoptimize plugin, it is unfortunately not possible to see the origin of this property. If you deactivate the plugin, you could see where it comes from and give you an optimisation suggestion.

pro-tip; you can disable Autoptimize on a per-request basis by adding ?ao_noptimize=1 to the URL.

if the problem is not there at that point, some autoptimize (re-)configuration might be needed to fix this. there are troubleshooting tips and info on how to exclude in the AO FAQ.

hope this helps debugging,
frank (ao dev)

Pro-Tip-Answer: I know the parameter, it just doesn’t work there ??

in that case give ?ao_noptirocket=1 a try maybe ??

Ah, interesting.

@anleemis: now I see that the problematic information about centring is in the custom CSS. Look under Appeareance > Customizer > Additional CSS for this entry:

.post p { text-align: center; }

Remove it, save the change and you should have control over paragraphs in your editor again.

Yay!!! Thank you so much!! I removed that CSS entry and now I can get things aligned correctly! That solved my problem!

Thank you to everyone who commented on this question. I appreciate your time in helping me.

Follow up question. On that same post, I can not get the headings to align left. They are center aligned and I can’t change it. Is there anything I can do to get the headings to left align?

Same reason. There is the following custom style in your custom css:

.post h1, .post h2, .post .meta {
 text-align: center !important;
}

Remove this information, then the information from your theme will take over the alignment of the headings. So this must also be somewhere in the theme’s settings.

@threadi Thank you! This fixed my issue! I really appreciate your help! I didn’t think I’d ever get it figured out! You’re awesome!

I’m glad you were able to solve it. You are welcome to set the topic to solved.