Title: 2 BIG issues
Last modified: November 8, 2016

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# 2 BIG issues

 *  Resolved [natashahill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natashahill/)
 * (@natashahill)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-big-issues/)
 * Hi there,
 * I am using your plugin and it is working beautifully. However, there are a couple
   of big issues.
 * 1. There is a lot of spacing between my announcement boxes (please see link here:
   [http://www.oceanoptimism.org/evolution-ocean-optimism/](http://www.oceanoptimism.org/evolution-ocean-optimism/)).
   Is there a way I can remove this? I added CSS to stop the containers overlapping,
   but would really like them neatly fitted together. The containers are still overlapping
   on mobile.
 * 2. Secondly, when you click on each announcement, it does not view very nicely
   on the screen – text is stretched right against the edge of the screen. Is there
   a way of rectifying this?
 * Thank you.
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [natashahill](https://wordpress.org/support/users/natashahill/).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Code Parrots](https://wordpress.org/support/users/codeparrots/)
 * (@codeparrots)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/2-big-issues/#post-8411094)
 * Hi Natasha,
 * Thank you for reaching out to us. To answer your questions:
 * 1) In previous releases’ we had adjusted the spacing for the end user. This was
   both good and bad in that it helped lay out the timeline a bit nicer (when users
   were using longer announcement excerpts), but when things weren’t set up just
   right the containers would overlap. It turned out more often than not that the
   containers were overlapping for people, and they were forced to adjust the CSS
   to fix it.
 * In our most previous release, we removed the spacing so there was no overlap 
   for anyone. To work around this issue, we’ve written a documentation article 
   on how and where to make the changes to adjust the spacing on larger devices.
   The article can be found here: [http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/adjust-spacing-announcement-containers/](http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/adjust-spacing-announcement-containers/)
 * You’ll see that we have provided a snippet to adjust the containers on desktop
   screens only,b but you can make the alterations to adjust the mobile devices (
   if needed).
 * Alternatively, our pro version has a different method of laying out the containers
   and actually does it’s best to lay them out as close as possible without an overlap.
   The demo that you see at [http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/examples/basic-timeline/](http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/examples/basic-timeline/)
   is our pro version – and thus why your timeline and the one in the demo appear
   different. Purchasing the pro version would layout your timeline differently 
   so it looks more like the one in the demo, but you can use CSS to make the tweaks
   to the free version.
 * 2) Timeline Express does it’s best to inherit the template from your theme – 
   but not all themes will work out of the box. Again, we have put together a documentation
   article on how to setup a custom single announcement view – so it fits in seamlessly
   with your theme. Take a look at the article here, [http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/customize-single-announcement-template/](http://www.wp-timelineexpress.com/documentation/customize-single-announcement-template/).
   Follow those steps to duplicate your themes single.php template, and things should
   look perfect.
 * Let us know if you have any further questions.

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