Spent 4 hours fixing a forum theme that broke after a plugin update

Client updated their WP plugins on a Friday and suddenly their custom CSS for the forum layout went completely haywire - buttons floated into the sidebar and text overlapped like a ransom note. Has anyone else had a plugin update trash their carefully tuned theme settings?

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anthony1274mo ago

text overlapped like a ransom note" holy crap that sounds like a nightmare to debug.

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susan_wells4mo ago

Oh man, I've been there. What worked for me once was just printing all the text out on paper with a ruler next to it to see how each line actually lined up. Turned out I had a conflict between a left margin that was too wide and a right margin that was too narrow, plus a line-height that was totally off. I also had a font that was really tall and narrow, so everything looked scrunched together. Once I saw it on paper, I could fix the spacing properties one at a time until the ransom note look went away. It also helped to slap a temporary border around every text element in the CSS so I could see where each block actually started and ended.

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