WordPress and This Blog - Helpful Colin

Sorry the sizes below relate to my old theme. I have to readjust them for the Twenty Sixteen theme I now use.

Current Maximum Width Screen Sizes

All Screens

Site Width: 1305px

Header Width: 1305px

Header Height: ?px

Menu Bar, etc. Width: ?px

Menu Bar, etc. Height: ?px

Sub Menu Items, Width: 200px

Sub Menu Items, Height: 36px

Go To Top Icon: 48px x 48px

Featured Images

Width: ?px

Height: ?px

Aspect Ratio W:H =?

Blog Posts

Content Width: 600px

Maximum Image Width: 600px

Maximum Image Height: 1100px

Left Margin: 111px

Text Width: 672px

Right Margin: 111px

Right Border: black 1px within right margin

Video Width: 672px

Video Height for Aspect Ratio 4:3 : 504px

Video Height for Aspect Ration 16:9 : 378px

Content Sidebar Width: 366px

Left Margin: 15px

Widget Width: 336px = 672 ÷ 2

Right Margin: 15px

Variable Full Width Pages

Left Margin: 30px

Text Width Max: 1200px

Right Margin: 30px

Fixed Full Width Pages

Left Margin: 30px

Text Width: 1200px

Right Margin: 30px

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My Latest News

3rd June 2019: I’ve had a go at making testimonials look better. The previous method was a mess so I’ve used the Kadence Testimonials block to produce a testimonials page with two neat columns which are now accessed from the Posts menu since they all originate via Post Comments.

1st June 2019: Continuing to edit using blocks I have changed to a Kadence FAQ block to display Frequently Asked Questions and their answers. I spotted a problem with the accordion block and Ben Ritner has very kindly edited the block to resolve it. There has been some editing of the Qs & As and you might find I mess with it some more.

I have also begun using the Contents Table block by Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg to show the contents of my posts. I am inserting this block after the Introduction. If I put it first as it would be in a book it causes some issues:

In my list of posts that is shown in reverse date order I only want the Introduction or part thereof to be seen. If I put the contents block first that will be seen. It will take up a lot of screen space and won’t be very interesting.
The contents block links to all the headings used in the post but that doesn’t work when it’s viewed in the list of post snippets described in 1 above.

1st February 2019: I have just deleted a file named wordfenceScanner.php.bin from my PHP .opcache folder on my server. Wordfence had detected it contained the TimThumb script which is considered to be unsafe. I must look into methods of cleaning my PHP cache. It looks as if it contains some outdated files.

2nd January 2019: Again I couldn’t get my WP v5.0.1 to update to v5.0.2 so I followed Wordfence’s instructions and upgraded it manually. I made a good job of it and searched for the cause of the problem. It turned out to be caused by the plugin DGXPCO which is designed to improve Core update security.

Hopefully if the Core updating server got hacked and a false Core program was sent this plugin wouldn’t allow it to be applied due to manual intervention. Well that manual intervention failed to allow valid Core updates through so I have deactivated that plugin for the time being.

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Site Construction

The site helpfulcolin.com was originally built in September 2011 by Digitalog© using the Side Blog theme and handed over to Helpful Colin by his mentors (see their links below) in December 2011. It was changed to a ‘Twenty Fourteen’ child theme in February 2014 by Helpful Colin.

The latest major change took place in December 2015 when WordPress version 4.4 became active and Helpful Colin changed the theme to the ‘Twenty Sixteen’ theme which is designed to look good on all screen sizes. Although this may have improved the blog for mobile users it has removed some functionality available in ‘Twenty Fourteen’.