Question
I have a client who put up his own WordPress site. It’s nice and functional – the problem is he copied and pasted all his content into WP pages from another site we built about 2 years ago where we had put everything in from Dreamweaver or Word (and that worked – it was a Sitesell site). So the formatting is askew in some cases since he’s not allowing the css built into his template to do its job. His other site did well with some tables we had set up – WP not so much. Most of the pages are ok because they are static.
There are a few pages that we change monthly based on his upcoming teleseminars. Every time I update those pages, the formatting goes bonkers again – bolds show up where they shouldn’t, font sizes change and things that were left justified are centered, etc. Every time it’s something different and the page keep morphing like a bad Sci Fi movie. I’m thinking it’s because everything originally came from another site and wasn’t entered into the page allowing for css to do its thing. Is that the case, oh WordPress Wizard?
I have to fix this page and I’m thinking I will just do it from scratch and manually put the content in a new page using the WP formatting. If I do that, how do I get that page to be named the same as the old one without removing the old one (in case he decides he wants to go back to the crazy page)? Also, I assume if I change the font style and size in the css for say the paragraph format or the Header 2 format, that will filter through the entire site, correct? (He seems to think if I do it will change for THAT page only – he’s a dabbler and drives me crazy cleaning up after him.)
Thanks for your advice, Denise – I appreciate you and value you very much.
Blessings,
Answer
Hi Brenda,
YES – copying and pasting content from an old site is the problem and I would recommend rebuilding that page (or those pages) from scratch.
As for creating a new page (without removing the old one) – what you will need to is change the permalink for the OLD page, then publish a NEW page and make sure the permalink is set to be the same as the old one.
And yes, any changes made to the main theme stylesheet (style.css) will apply to the whole wordpress site, not just an individual page.
Hope this helps!
Denise