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This is a jQuery incompatibility. See #13353. I've put a hotfix in place for the imbalance2 theme that appears to fix the homepage.

I'll take a closer look tomorrow to see whether it's possible/necessary to make further changes to imbalance2, and I'll try to make a recommendation about whether to migrate away from the theme.

Yes, I'll check with her.

Do you think we will add Rebalance to our theme set? It looks like the grid layout I personally like, so I would give it a go if it were there.

For context, imbalance2 is currently used by 44 sites on the network, and it is network-enabled, meaning it's selectable by new sites. If it were an easy thing to do, it would be nice to swap out imbalance2 for rebalance and switch over all existing users. But this kind of swap-out is almost never one-for-one, meaning it will require a fair amount of research and due diligence. So, given that imbalance2 doesn't seem to be causing any problems other than the one described in this ticket, I'd suggest it's not worth the effort to do this.

In this case, we'd be introducing Rebalance alongside imbalance2. I would only want to do this if Rebalance were really excellent and filled a gap in our theme selection. But it appears that Rebalance is not fully supported. See https://wordpress.org/themes/rebalance/ - it hasn't been updated since March 2018. For these reasons, my vote is not to add it to our theme selection.

If we want something with a grid layout (and don't already have something comparable), we should look for something that's actively maintained.

I agree then. No update since March 2018 seems like a bad sign.

I personally use Color Mag for its grid layout, but I don't love it. Does anyone have other suggestions? Sorry to hijack this thread!

Scott is the resident expert on what's available on the Commons, so I defer to him :-D

The masonry layout can be done with the Bridge theme. Bridge is complex and may take some time to get familiar with, though.

For an example, see: https://bccarchives.commons.gc.cuny.edu/

should we consider disabling the network availability of imbalance2? I don't see it, btw, on the WordPress theme viewer (https://wordpress.org/themes/search), but instead see it in the following places:

https://www.themeshaker.com/theme/imbalance-2-modern-art-magazine-wordpress-theme

https://www.themeshaker.com/theme/imbalance-2-modern-art-magazine-wordpress-theme

Is imbalance2 being maintained actively?

I don't believe imbalance2 was ever listed in the wordpress.org theme repository. We get it from the wpcom-themes SVN repo maintained by Automattic.

The theme is not "actively maintained" in the sense that it doesn't receive any new features. However, it does appear to get bug fixes, such as the jQuery fix described in this ticket.

I lean toward disabling it, if only because it's so old.

Rosalia is all set with her site.

Scott, I might check our Bridge, but I was hoping for straightforward.

Boone, going to Automattic then the wordpress.org theme repository allowed me to get here - https://wordpress.org/themes/tags/grid-layout. Do we have or can we tr any of those? BlogLife and Occasio looked pretty good to me. I can open a new low-urgency ticket about this. Rosalia makes me thing I'm not the only one who likes a busy blocky layout.

Boone Gorges wrote:

I lean toward disabling it, if only because it's so old.

I lean towards disabling for new users, as well.

I've network-disabled imbalance2.