wprhys

Okay more information as I isolate this bug:

I updated one site to 3.4.2 and the apparent padding problem reappeared, so I viewed the page source, and what I found is that wordpress somehow inserts a <br /> tag at the end of form hidden input lines,

<input type="hidden" name="pbidit" value="auxsteam" ><br />

so several of these at the top of a form shove it down that many lines. The short-term solution is to move those hidden inputs to the end of the form, now pushing the page trailer down instead, the lesser of the evils.

I started looking into the wordpress files, for the do_action function, soon realizing I am now out of my element. Good luck, anybody!!

My User Profiles did not offer the “Show on Front” option so there was nothing to uncheck.

I applied the two suggested lines to functions.php — then reversed the order of appearance of functions.php and plugin.php in wp-settings.php, to avoid “call to undefined function add_filter” and I THINK it may have worked, to reduce the gap by the referred 28px, there are no errors — but my new gap (only preceding html forms) with 3.4.1 is HUGE — 120px at least, maybe 150. It seems to be ONLY cued by the <form> tag; html lines directly above the form appear above the gap. <table> also displays properly, no preceding gap. Atahualpa theme, old and new both do it. So I’m back on 3.3.2 and treading lightly.