whitehound

At the time, I was doing battle with a combination of Long COVID and a broken washing machine so I didn’t get round to trying these. But now I have, and the wp-config edit to increase the memory limit did the trick. Thanks to both.

Yes. At the time I thought it might be theme-related as I’d witched to Astra since the last time I used that page, but it wasn’t.

It does affect functionality though as it maes posts incredibly hard to edit. I don’t know if this is a thing that a theme *can* do, or whether it would have to be done by WordPress themselves, but it would be really useful to be able to change column widths in these admin display forms in some way other than simply deleting columns. On an Excel spreadsheet, for example, I could choose between dragging columns wider or thinner with a pull handle, setting the column width from a dialogue box, changing the font size of the display to fit more on a page, and allowing the form to spill over the side of the apge and then scrolling back and forth. But the only thing I can do in WordPress is turn columns right off. If it’s possible for a theme like Astra to make the display forms more customisable, that would be really useful.

Never mind – I found it myself. But it’s worth recording here because it’s a problem I’ve seen other people complaining about and not getting an answer. The problem was the GrowSocial plugin, which added an extra, and wide, column to the post details, and in doing so squashed the Title column to single-character width. Pulling down the Screen Options at top right and turning off some of the less important columns enabled the Title column to expand back to a readable width.