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Thanks for the response! I should be clear that I’m not hand-coding this CSS. I am far from a power user of CSS or WordPress. I’m just using the block editor for widgets. I used that editor to add buttons — it chose the styling, and apparently misled me about whether I was actually adding buttons rather than links. Okay. I like they way they look and work just fine, so I don’t need to do anything to them.

I also used that block editor to add the Jetpack subscribe widget. What I’m finding here is that some of the settings I choose in that editor — such as the widget’s button background color and text color — aren’t respected by the theme. Adding “!important” to the “additional CSS” section didn’t help, not that I expected it to.

I just deleted and re-added the subscribe widget, and adjusted the settings on it so that the button has white text on a black background, is placed beneath the email text field, and is identical in width to that field. This is exactly what the block editor preview shows me:

Then, when I publish that widget on the site, I see a button with white text on a green background, taking up like 90% of the width of the text field, and right-aligned:

Sorry if this is a dopey question, but how can I persuade Independent Publisher to behave in the way that the widget block editor expects it to?

Whoo, great detective work. It wasn’t the spotify embed though — I’ve got dozens of those that didn’t cause any issues. However, I did need to revamp them since www.ads-software.com doesn’t handle spotify URIs in the same way.

While working on the Billie Eilish post, I was trying to wrestle WordPress back to the classic editor, and one of the stops along the way resulted in a bunch of boldgrid stuff getting inserted into the html. I thought I’d gotten rid of it, but didn’t notice that there were 4 </div> tags hanging out at the bottom of the post. Getting rid of those restored the sidebar to its proper place.

That’s twice I owe you! Thanks very much!

Oh, except. That seems to have created a new problem: it apparently caused my sidebar to migrate alllll the way to the bottom of the screen.

This isn’t a problem on individual posts or pages, just on the front page. Still a pretty big bummer. Is there any way to tweak that CSS so that it doesn’t exile the sidebar to the wintry south on the home page?

Perfect! Thanks so much for the prompt help, and the excellent theme!