content of older posts has disappeared

  • observeroftimes · Member ·

    The entire body of text has recently disappeared from nearly all my posts prior to June 2015. Images, tags & comments remain. Thanks if you can help.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • aisajib · Staff ·

    Hi there!

    I opened a random post from before June 2015 and I was able to view all the content in the post body. Can you share some links to the posts that don’t have the body of text anymore?

    Thanks!

  • observeroftimes · Member ·

    Thanks for your prompt response. After posting on the forum, I realised I’d used html code to change the font from the default font to Tahoma in the missing posts. I spent a few hours removing the code & they are all now visible. Only one of the posts in Tahoma font hadn’t disappeared, & I noticed I’d used a different piece of code at the end of it (but have removed it for consistency). Do you have any ideas as to why the code worked before, then suddenly didn’t? Regards & thanks.

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Do you have any ideas as to why the code worked before, then suddenly didn’t?

    Can you tell us the code you’d used? That’s the only way we might be able to figure this out. To post code in the forums, wrap it in backticks so it’s not rendered instead or stripped out.

    If I had to make a guess, though, it’s probably that your code didn’t include any fallback fonts (in other words, a complete font stack), so when you opened your site in a computer/browser that didn’t have that font installed, it had no way of displaying it.

    To use any font on a website the font either has to be web-safe (i.e. something that’s installed by default on all/most operating systems and browsers), or you have to explicitly import it into your theme, before you can specify it in your HTML.

    But on WordPress.com you can change the font on your site without using any code. Your theme supports custom fonts that you can enable from within the Customizer:

    https://wordpress.com/support/custom-fonts/#changing-fonts-in-the-customizer

  • observeroftimes · Member ·

    Thanks for your feedback. The code I used was <code><font face="verdana"><span style="font-verdana;font-size:small;"> before the text & </font> after the text. This worked for 10+ years. The posts were visible at least until a few months ago: possibly around the time I found I could no longer use WordPress on my PC. However, the posts w/ Tahoma font weren’t visible on other devices either. Any thoughts? Regards & thanks.

  • aisajib · Staff ·

    Hi there!

    In the code that you pasted, it seems there’s an additional <code>. I wonder if that has something to do with it.

    <code><font face="verdana"><span style="font-verdana;font-size:small;">

    Is there any post left that still has the old code? We’d love to see the post in action to check out what’s going on as we aren’t really sure what caused the issue.

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