Why is the widget’s content aligned to the left now?

Hi there,

Can you show me the page with the issue?

Are you referring to the section highlighted?
https://app.screencast.com/bGwdB5qfsNRky

If so, it looks centred to me. Am I missing anything?

Let me know 🙂

I see, you mean the footer widgets.

You are using WP columns block for that section, which we don’t have control over, unfortunately.

If you can re-build the section using the GenerateBlocks plugin’s Grid block, we can help with that.

Hi there,

In Customize > Additional CSS, you currently have this:

.site-footer .footer-widgets-container .inner-padding {
    padding: 0 0 0 0;
    /*display: flex !important;
    flex-wrap: wrap !important;
    justify-content: center !important;*/
}

The display, flex-wrap, and justify-content lines are currently commented out. Please uncomment those lines so they can take effect. That will fix the issue.

Hi Lexa,

I understand the frustration – things that used to work shouldn’t just break on their own. However, this issue is actually caused by a WordPress core update, not by GeneratePress.

Here’s what happened in simple terms: your footer widget area uses a WordPress Columns block to display those 5 columns (the two logos on the sides, plus navigation, contact, and legal info in the middle). A while back, WordPress changed the way this Columns block handles its internal layout. The old behavior naturally spread the columns evenly across the full width, which kept everything centred. The new behavior (introduced around WordPress 6.1) no longer does that – it lets each column just be as wide as its content and aligns them to the left by default.

So the change came from WordPress itself, not from GeneratePress. This type of issue is completely outside of GeneratePress’s control – and it would affect any other WordPress theme in the same way, since it’s the WordPress block system itself that changed how columns are laid out. There is unfortunately nothing in GeneratePress (or any theme) that can “patch” this, because the layout is being handled entirely by WordPress core. The fix needs to happen where the problem lives: in the Columns block settings themselves.

The simplest fix:

Instead of editing CSS, you can fix this directly from the Widget editor:

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets in your WordPress dashboard.
2. Find your footer widget area and click on the Columns block.
3. In the block settings panel on the right, look for the Layout section.
4. Set the Justification to “Center” (the centre-align icon).
5. Also make sure each column has an equal width set (e.g., 20% each for 5 columns) – you can do this by clicking on each individual column and setting its width in the block settings.
6. Save.

This tells WordPress to centre the columns within the available space and give each column a fair share of the width, which is what it used to do automatically before the update.

If you’d rather not touch the block settings, the CSS fix that I mentioned (uncommenting those three lines in your Additional CSS) will achieve the same result and won’t break your responsive layout – it simply tells the widget wrapper to centre whatever is inside it.

Hope that helps clarify things!