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Outland theme: Theme no longer matches demo apperance
Quick summary
The Outland theme has a large border on the left in the demo: https://wordpress.com/theme/outland When I activate the theme, this border is no longer showing on either Atomic or Simple sites. A user also reported the border disappeared from their site.
Steps to reproduce
- On any WordPress.com site with an Explorer plan or higher, activate the Outland theme
- Notice how it doesn't have the large black border
Demo site:
My sites:
What you expected to happen
The website should have the large border.
What actually happened
There is no such border.
Browser
No response
Context
8277329-zd-a8c
Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)
Simple, Atomic
Other notes
8277329-zd-a8c
Reproducibility
Consistent
Severity
Some (< 50%)
Available workarounds?
No but the platform is still usable
Workaround details
No response
Support References
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📌 REPRODUCTION RESULTS
- Tested on Atomic – Replicated
📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO
Replicated exactly as described.
📌 ACTIONS
Triaged
Ran into this here: 8491846-zd-a8c.
On the demo site, the Cover Block has 'inner blocks use content width' toggled off. On newly launched sites, the theme has that toggled on. Toggling it off fixes the display to match the theme demo.
It seems intentional to me that there is no border in the header. I'd propose updating the preview instead of changing the theme to introduce the border.
It's unclear whether the border is intentional or not. See pNEWy-gud-p2 and p1736784281882349-slack-C087R6MBH36.
Either the theme itself or the demo site need to be adjusted.
I don't have access at this time but a fix would look something like this based on the demo site content: 36b0a-pb/#diff
It's unclear whether the border is intentional or not.
The border is intentional - it should be applied to the hero image, and the image at the very bottom:
Also, the text below the hero section (and all sections that follow) should be aligned to the border:
