Why doesn’t text flow around my images in WP 2.6?

Has upgrading to WP 2.6 made it suddenly impossible to wrap text around images?

Here’s the ‘mu:kaumedia PIG-simple guide to what’s probably happened (many thanks to Otto42 in the Wordpress Codex):

WP 2.6 has a new image uploader.

This creates different code (or something technical and complicated) for aligning images than the old one did.  If your blog theme’s CSS file was written for Wordpress 2.5 then it won’t recognise the alignment instructions given by your new image uploader.

Result? Text won’t flow around the image no matter how many times you click the alignment buttons.

Solution?

Go into your Theme Editor in your dashboard and copy and paste the code shown in the pic (right) – available to copy and paste here - into the end of your theme’s ’style.css’ file and save.

Magically, your images will fall into place and the text will behave itself just like in the good old days.

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