2 queries: custom fonts unshow, as does header picture
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I’m new to WP. Two questions: I placed a photo in my header without problem, but when I try to print that page out via my printer’s own software or FinePrint (my preferred printing program), the picture doesn’t show, while the rest of the design does. Why? And how can I overcome this? A picture’s worth a thousand words, you know.
Next question: I’ve purchased three custom fonts from Adobe’s convoluted system and would like to use them in my blog. How can I substitute them, or one of them, for the default sans serif typefaces? Do I have to learn CSS? I had thought I could involve the fonts directly from my editing screen. I am too old to learn CSS; I did once, back in Dreamweaver days, and have managed to forget it all.
Thanks.
–Fred Powledge
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Hi Fred,
Will you please start by reading this entry? WordPress.com vs WordPress.org:The DifferencesI placed a photo in my header without problem …And how can I overcome this?
You can’t.
I’ve purchased three custom fonts from Adobe’s convoluted system and would like to use them in my blog. How can I substitute them, or one of them, for the default sans serif typefaces?
You can’t use them on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. There is no FTP access and you cannot upload fonts into a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
Do I have to learn CSS?
These are 4 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.
(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/
(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
Note: Any font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, post titles, page titles, widget headings, categories and tags cannot be done without CSS editing.
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I replied to this response shortly after receiving it, but never got a fresh response. The exchange went like this:
Thank you for your very quick reply.First of all, I thought I understood the difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org. I thought that I had paid the extra money to get wordpress.org and all its bells and whistles. I indicated that I did want “the bundle.” Is “the bundle” not the same as …org? If not, will you please tell me how I can get …org?
Your response to the part of my query about the disappearing picture was somewhat mysterious. Is there a reason for this? (I took and own the picture in question, so I doubt that copyright enters into it.) I plan to upload smaller pictures (of jackets of books I’ve written) to the site; will they disappear, too?
Let’s say I do convert to wordpress.org (rather than wordpress.com). Is the method for using the typefaces I purchased as complex as you describe below? (What I want to do, and thought I was paying to be able to do, was what you apparently mean in your item 3. below.
I also thought I had purchased the Custom Upgrade package (for $30). Is this not the case?
And what does “and with staff support” mean? Does this not come more or less automatically with my purchase of the custom upgrade package?
I might not have to raise these questions if WordPress’s instructions were a bit better. The writing is excellent, and the explanations are very good, but getting around to find what one needs on the site is a bear.
–Fred
On 11/9/2011 16:51, WordPress.com Forums wrote:
> timethief wrote:
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> Hi Fred,
> Will you please start by reading this entry? WordPress.com vs WordPress.org:The Differences
> I placed a photo in my header without problem …And how can I overcome this?
> You can’t.
> I’ve purchased three custom fonts from Adobe’s convoluted system and would like to use them in my blog. How can I substitute them, or one of them, for the default sans serif typefaces?
> You can’t use them on a free hosted WordPress.com blog. There is no FTP access and you cannot upload fonts into a free hosted WordPress.com blog.
> Do I have to learn CSS?
> These are 4 ways to change fonts on wordpress.com blogs.
> (1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/
> (2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
> (3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
> Note: Any font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, post titles, page titles, widget headings, categories and tags cannot be done without CSS editing.
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> Read this post on the forums: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/2-queries-custom-fonts-unshow-as-does-header-picture?replies=2#post-740849
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>Yes, I *had* read the business about the fact that wordpress.com and wordpress.org are different. I am yet to find any directions on how to move from one (com) to the other (org). This seems to be a factor in much of the WordPress experience: plenty of words, but a lack of specific instructions. And, in the case of my query about editing the header picture, all I got was “You can’t.” This is not helpful.
I would like to continue with WordPress, and look forward to finding out how I can do it.
–Fred Powledge -
WordPress’s “support” has not responded to he queries above, except the first one (and that response was useless), and so I must put an end to the agony of trying to start using the program. Refund any monies I have spent with you and notify me that you have done so.
–Fred Powledge. 11/17/11 -
WordPress’s “support” has not responded to he queries above, except the first one (and that response was useless),
Are you referring to timethief’s response above (who, by the way, is not staff) or to an actual email you got from staff?
Refund any monies I have spent with you and notify me that you have done so.
You’ll need to get in touch with staff directly for that:
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Fred, the problem is that to use the fonts you have purchased from Adobe’s convoluted system (and I agree with convoluted), each visitor to your site would have to also have purchased those fonts and installed them on their computers. Browsers pull fonts from the visitor’s computer unless you are using an online font service such as Typekit here (custom fonts through the Custom Design Upgrade), and then Typekit serves the fonts to the browser from the Typekit online servers.
This will be the same when you self-host a wordpress.ORG installation also. You will have to use an online font service such as Typekit for fonts other than the fonts that are standard across all computer platforms.
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Howdy @fredpowledge. I just found the second support thread you submitted and refunded the bundle you purchased as you asked. Let us know if we can help in any other way. Cheers.
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