Title: Plugin causing theme distortion
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Plugin causing theme distortion

 *  [ConduciveMammal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conducivemammal/)
 * (@conducivemammal)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/)
 * I’ve identified your plugin to cause theme elements to be displaced. The theme
   is ThemeAlley’s [Business ](https://www.themealley.com/business/)
 * The problem occurs only in the theme settings through the dashboard
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotspots/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hotspots/)

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 *  Plugin Author [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * (@dpowney)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819919)
 * Hi,
 * Can you please show some screenshots? Is this only occuring in WP-admin theme
   settings? How have you identified it is this plugin causing the problem? Is it
   only one theme you have seen this occur? It could be caused by the theme.
 * Thanks,
    Daniel.
 *  Thread Starter [ConduciveMammal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conducivemammal/)
 * (@conducivemammal)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819921)
 * Hey, thanks for your reply.
 * Below are two links, one with the plugin enabled, and one without.
 * I identified it as I contacted the theme’s developer about this displacement 
   and he told me that it was one of my plugins causing the error. So I disabled
   all of them and of course, the theme showed properly, I then went through each
   of them and came to this one as causing the error.
 * I’ve only seen this problem with this theme so I cannot say whether it happens
   with other themes.
 * [With Plugin activated](http://justanothertechblog.liam-merlyn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/With_plugin.jpg)
 * [With Plugin deactivated](http://justanothertechblog.liam-merlyn.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/without_Plugin.jpg)
 * Regards,
    Liam.
 *  Plugin Author [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * (@dpowney)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819922)
 * Could be some conflicting styles.
 * Here’s the styles for hotspots in the wp-admin
    [http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hotspots/trunk/css/admin.css](http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hotspots/trunk/css/admin.css)
 * This one could be the culprit:
    div.tablenav select, div.tablenav input[type=”
   text”] { max-width: 280px; min-width: 100px; }
 * Can you add the following custom CSS (you can use this plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/)
   to do it) and see if that fixes it:
    div.tablenav select, div.tablenav input[
   type=”text”] { max-width: none !important; min-width: none !important; }
 * If that doesn’t fix it, can you ask the theme developer for help and give them
   the css file link.
 * I’ll add some more selectors for the plugin styles to avoid these kinds of issues.
 *  Thread Starter [ConduciveMammal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conducivemammal/)
 * (@conducivemammal)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819923)
 * Hmmm nope, that unfortunately doesn’t seem to have fixed it.
 * Do you mean the admin.css of the plugin for me to send? I’m not sure if he’ll
   help, his work is nice but doesn’t seem particularly enthusiastic about helping
   others. But I’ll give it a go.
 * Regards,
    Liam.
 *  Plugin Author [dpowney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dpowney/)
 * (@dpowney)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819924)
 * The URL for the admin css is [http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hotspots/trunk/css/admin.css](http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hotspots/trunk/css/admin.css)
 * Also try adding this custom CSS:
    .tablenav { min-height: none !important; } .
   tablenav label, .tablenav input, .tablenav select, .tablenav button { margin-
   bottom: inherit !important; } .tablenav input, .tablenav select, .tablenav button{
   margin-right: inherit !important; }
 * Clear you browser cache too as it may not have refreshed the CSS.
 * Let me know how you go.
 * I’ll update the CSS in the plugin next week and we can retest then.
 * Thanks,
    Daniel
 *  Thread Starter [ConduciveMammal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conducivemammal/)
 * (@conducivemammal)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819925)
 * Darn it, nope, still no luck. I’ll contact the theme developer and see if he 
   can fix it.
 * I look forward to the update.
 * Thanks very much for your help.
 * Regards,
    Liam.

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 * Last reply from: [ConduciveMammal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/conducivemammal/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-causing-theme-distortion/#post-4819925)
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