Automattic
Varia and child themes: Theme overrides photo border color
Quick summary
When an image has a set border color and width on a page, it is not reflected on the live view and displays the theme's set colors.
Steps to reproduce
- Create a new site
- Activate the Hever theme
- Insert a new image block in a page & upload an image
- Set a border color
- Update page
What you expected to happen
To show the border color selected on the page.
What actually happened
Shows one of the theme's colors defined in the Customizer.
Context
When switching a theme, the border color is reset.
When the border color is set on a different theme, the color stays (e.g. Twenty Twenty-Two):
When switched back to Hever, the border color in settings resets, but the color seems to stay:
Platform (Simple, Atomic, or both?)
Simple, Atomic
Theme-specific issue?
Yes, on Hever.
Browser, operating system and other notes
No response
Reproducibility
Consistent
Severity
No response
Available workarounds?
Yes, easy to implement
Workaround details
- Change to a different them (e.g. Twenty Twenty-Two)
- Set the border colors in the images again
- Switch back to
Hever
📌 SCRUBBING : RESULT
- Tested on P2 - n/a
- Tested on Simple - Replicated
- Tested on AT - Replicated
- Tested on Self-hosted - Replicated
- Replicable on Core - No
📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO
- Issue with all Varia child themes
- Only reproducible with the colors showing in the palette. Custom colors work
📌 ACTIONS
- Marked as Triaged for Quality Squad review
- Transferred to themes
It seems like I am unable to reproduce this - tried both locally, and on Simple.
