[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #29681: [Theme twentyfourteen] Left Column Drops to the Bottom Way Too Soon

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#29681: [Theme twentyfourteen] Left Column Drops to the Bottom Way Too Soon
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 Reporter:  Quantumstate  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Themes        |    Version:  4.0
 Severity:  major         |   Keywords:  twentyfourteen
  Focuses:                |
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 Just as it says.  In a regular browser window, I have no left column.  It
 drops all the way to the bottom of the page way too early.  I have a
 regular-sized browser.

 I know how the system is supposed to work:  Somehow the theme determines
 the size of the screen currently being used, and parses through the sizes
 in style.css until it finds one it thinks fits.

 But even though my browser window is 1,200 pixels wide, the left column
 drops dead to the bottom.

 Used to be I could fix this by editing style.css and changing
 @media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {
 ... to 500.  But with the new WP 4.0 and 2014 1.2, and my child theme,
 that no longer works.  I tried setting that line in my child theme, but
 realized it has no way of knowing when to invoke that size, so of course
 it doesn't work.

 No one in the user forum, support forum, or IRC knows how the sizing
 actually takes place, and there is nothing about it anywhere in references
 on The Internets.

 But what do I know is my users don't have any control, as most of them
 don't parse the many pages to the bottom, to find the panel.  It looks
 like I have only one article to them.  https://quantum-sci.com/cacook

 So I log this here as a bug.  My readers have no control.

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