Spacing Issues - Customizer Shows It But Site Does Not

Hi Kenneth,

You can upload the screenshots to a site like this: https://postimage.io/ and post the direct link here.

It might be more helpful if you can provide a link to your site though.

Let me know.

Yeah I should have just posted the URL to start with, my brain was tired last night and I wasn't thinking. Here's the URL http://wataugaonline.com/

The front page is where spacing issues are. Here's a link to a screenshot as to how the page appears in customizer and should appear online. https://s1.postimg.org/d0yrzgien/Screen_Shot_04-16-17_at_07.54_PM.jpg

Sorry what specific spacing problem are you having?

I see the code matches your customizer setting (container width 1050px and separating space 28px)

Here is what I see: https://s21.postimg.org/ciidt172f/2017-04-17_1136.png

Let me know.

My front page at wataugaonline.com is not matching up to what I publish in the customizer https://s1.postimg.org/d0yrzgien/Screen_Shot_04-16-17_at_07.54_PM.jpg. Could it be I have a CSS code somewhere over riding the customizer?

The code for the front page does match the settings you have in the customizer.

In the screenshot I provided (https://s21.postimg.org/ciidt172f/2017-04-17_1136.png), the left sidebar is not showing (blocked by AdBlock I assume) which is why it's not aligning on the left hand side.

Let me know if I'm still missing something :)

Yeah your ad blocker is not letting you see how the whole front page is not spacing correctly. Here's a shot of how the front page is showing up https://s10.postimg.org/uzncxkj49/Screen_Shot_04-16-17_at_07.55_PM.jpg

I see. This is because the width of 180px you set for the advertisement is overwriting the left sidebar width:

.advertise-here-left-side {
    width: 180px;
    height: auto;
    margin-left: -30px;
    margin-top: -20px;
    color: #116ea3;
    text-align: center;
    background: #FDF5E6;
    line-height: 12px;
    font-size: 12px;
    border: 1px solid #000000;
}

I think the best way is probably inserting the advertisement widget in sidebar without giving it any specific style and let GP handles it.

Thanks. I tried taking the width out and that didn't work either. Looks like I'll have to play around with some coding and see what is causing that. I have my static front page in customizer to display my latest post, can you offer any advice about how to adjust the settings just for that option?

Sorry not sure what settings and options you are referring to?

I was wondering when a static front page is set to latest post where are the settings or options (if any) for the latest post.

There are lots of options for them.

The majority would be in Customizer > Blog: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/blog-overview/

But for things like colors and typography they would still be in the Colors and Typography section in the customizer:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/colors-overview/
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/typography-overview/

Let me know if you need more info.

I think I have discovered the issue but don't know how to solved it yet. When I deactivate my widgets that are showing my sidebar ads there is an Archive widget that is showing up even though I do not have one activated. Any thoughts on how to track that down?

When no widgets exist in a sidebar, GP will display some default ones to prevent a big empty space from appearing.

If you don't want any widgets to appear, you can simply turn off the sidebar: https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sidebar-layout/

As a follow up, I never have been able to solved the problem. I just noticed another thread having the same issues (https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/problems-customize-editing/). I turned off my caching plugin but that didn't help my case either.

I noticed I have the problem on my home page and then when search results are shown.

Any thoughts?