I’m having a weird issue with my WordPress website. After I modified some CSS styles to make the header and footer stretch across the full width, all the main content disappeared from my site. Now when visitors go to my pages, they can only see the header at the top and footer at the bottom, but everything in between is blank.
The strange thing is that all my content is still there in the WordPress admin area. When I go to edit pages, I can see all the text and images exactly as they should be. But none of it shows up on the actual website.
I already tried turning off all my plugins to see if one of them was causing the problem, but that didn’t fix anything. There’s only one page on my site that still shows content properly. I haven’t touched the page.php template file, so I don’t think that’s the issue.
Has anyone experienced something similar after making CSS changes? What could be causing the content to disappear like this?
Had this exact problem last year when I changed my site layout. Your CSS changes probably messed with the z-index or positioning. When you made the header and footer full width, you likely changed some positioning that’s now pushing your main content behind other elements or outside the viewport. Check for any position:absolute or position:fixed you added, and look for negative margins pulling content out of view. Use your browser’s dev tools to inspect the main content container - it might have height:0 or the header’s overlapping it. Try rolling back your recent CSS changes to confirm that’s what broke it, then you can fix the specific problem rules.
This happened to me six months ago - super frustrating. I accidentally messed up my main content wrapper’s dimensions with CSS changes. The fix? My header and footer edits had broken the parent container’s height calculation. The content was still there but got compressed to zero height because of conflicting CSS rules. Right-click where your content should be and inspect element. Check if your main content div has proper height values. Also, make sure your CSS didn’t create floating issues that collapsed the container. Since you’ve got one working page, compare its HTML structure with the broken ones to see what’s different.
hey, it sounds like ur css tweaks messed with content visibility. Did u maybe set display:none by accident? Also, check for overflow:hidden on main divs, that can hide stuff too. good luck!
CSS changes can definitely break content visibility in tricky ways. While everyone’s suggesting manual debugging, there’s actually a smarter approach.
Why spend hours hunting through CSS rules and dev tools when you can automate the whole thing? Set up monitoring that catches when your main content disappears and rolls back the problematic changes automatically.
I built something like this for our company sites after we hit this exact issue across multiple WordPress installs. The automation checks page structure every few minutes, compares it to expected content patterns, and flags when main content vanishes.
You can automate the CSS rollback too. Content goes missing? The system reverts recent CSS changes until it reappears, then logs exactly which rule broke things.
This beats the manual inspect element dance and stops future incidents. Plus you get alerts the second something breaks instead of finding out days later.
Latenode makes setting up this monitoring super simple. Connect it to your WordPress site and create automated workflows that watch for content issues and handle recovery.