{"id":29211,"date":"2026-01-15T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=29211"},"modified":"2026-01-15T11:38:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T16:38:15","slug":"admin-still-futzing-around-with-the-layout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/admin-still-futzing-around-with-the-layout\/","title":{"rendered":"ADMIN: Still Futzing Around with the Layout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>See that ugly pair of boxes (so-called &#8220;widgets&#8221;) up there at the right &#8212; (a) the headline, &#8220;Hats Recently Chased,&#8221; followed by (b) that weird list of phrases? It looks like this at the moment:<\/p>\n\n\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" class=\"wp-image-29212\" style=\"width: 400px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-from-2026-01-15-11-25-59.png?resize=300%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-from-2026-01-15-11-25-59.png?resize=300%2C243&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-from-2026-01-15-11-25-59.png?w=566&amp;ssl=1 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Yeah: gack! All that white space; the border between the headline and the list; etc. Item (b) just comprises the titles of &#8212; and links to &#8212; the half-dozen most recent posts here, and (a) is the title of the list itself. Going back a few months, this looked actually semi-normal, but whatever happened to break the site broke that pair of widgets, and it&#8217;s still broken after disappearing for a while. (It looks like it was laid out manually by someone with preschool-level hand\/eye coordination and probably fat fingers to boot.) This probably bothers no one but me, but it bothers me&#8230; uh&#8230; <em>bigly<\/em>. I&#8217;ll get around to fixing it at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, apologies for the ugliness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that ugly pair of boxes (so-called &#8220;widgets&#8221;) up there at the right &#8212; (a) the headline, &#8220;Hats Recently Chased,&#8221; followed by (b) that weird list of phrases? It looks like this at the moment: Yeah: gack! All that white space; the border between the headline and the list; etc. Item (b) just comprises the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":false,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3286,12],"tags":[1643],"class_list":{"0":"post-29211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-obsessions","7":"category-03_runningaftermyhat","8":"tag-administrivia","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-7B9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29220,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29211\/revisions\/29220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}