Academica: with Ubuntu, the strapline appears larger than the title!
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Using font Ubuntu, the strapline of my blog appears in markedly larger font that the title, when it should of course be the other way around.
Title and strapline are normally in Greek, but just to make sure it wasn’t a problem, I changed it to Latin characters. It still came out wrong!
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It looks like you’re using the Heading control under Appearance -> Customize -> Fonts to enlarge the site description. You can use this bit of CSS under Appearance -> Customize -> CSS to enlarge the site title as well:
h1#site-title a { font-size: 36px; }The font-size is adjustable to achieve the size ratio you’re looking for.
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Thank you for that, jeremey. It’s becoming clear to me that most adjustments really need to be implemented via CSS. Is there a master reference document for CSS commands which I could consult?
Also, could you please give me the appropriate CSS command for reducing the size of headings on all my pages (and nested pages), as well as the heading of Author Archives? All of them are at the moment of a gigantic size!
Thank you in advance.
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Is there a master reference document for CSS commands which I could consult?
We don’t have a master list so to speak. The CSS selectors change from theme to theme so it’s not really accurate to say that the code I gave you would work on every theme. We do have a basic reference here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/css-basics/
Also, could you please give me the appropriate CSS command for reducing the size of headings on all my pages (and nested pages), as well as the heading of Author Archives? All of them are at the moment of a gigantic size!
Can you return both the headings and the body font sizes back to 0 shown here?
I think it’s going to be easier to adjust these fonts after the settings have been set back to 0. Let me know what needs adjusting after that!
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OK, both headings and body reset back to 0. The headings on the pages are now back to a normal size…. but the headings and typeface on the Home page are now once again tiny! It seems as though the main font size controls are wildly out of synch between home page and the other pages.
I’m hoping you can provide CSS commands which can differentiate between the two?
Thank you for your ongoing help.
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Happy to provide the CSS you’re looking for. To start, here’s the CSS to adjust the headings of the post titles on your homepage:
.posts h2 a { font-size: 40px; }That 40 number is adjustable.
Let me know specifically what else you would like to change!
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Thanks for that. Next, how do I change the size of the text font?
(I’m assuming that in all these case of changing font specifications by means of CSS commands, one leaves the settings at zero).
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Next, how do I change the size of the text font?
Are you referring to the font size of your posts? If so, you can use the following:
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Thank you, jeremey.
I have one last question at this stage, if I may once more impose upon you. I should like to have the option of having only the first (however many) lines of a long post appear on the front page, allowing the reader to choose whether to read the whole post.
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In order to do that, you’ll want to use the More tag as explained here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/
Can you give that a try?
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Got that, the More tag is fully explained.
Thanks to your help, we’ve got the site up and running and already attracting readers. I would like to ask for your assistance in what I hope are the last two outstanding problems.
1) If you look at the site, I have set it up so that the home page has the widget bar on the right side only, whereas the Pages have the text running the full width. However, when you click on any individual post, you are taken to a page which has bars on both the left and right sides. I’ve tried hard to see how to change this to full width text (i.e., no widget bars), but can’t seem to find any way of doing so.
2) I have assigned Author rights to some of the site’s contributors, but they report that they cannot set either categories or tags for their contributions; what happens is that they can type in a tag in the appropriate box, but it doesn’t get accepted. Is this normal, or must the Administrator add tags and categories for all contributions?
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If you look at the site, I have set it up so that the home page has the widget bar on the right side only, whereas the Pages have the text running the full width. However, when you click on any individual post, you are taken to a page which has bars on both the left and right sides. I’ve tried hard to see how to change this to full width text (i.e., no widget bars), but can’t seem to find any way of doing so.
You will need to set this setting specifically for each post using the Post Format option on the right-hand side of the Edit Post screen as shown here:
You should see that post on this page for example:
https://tripelago.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=175&action=edit
Can you let me know if that pops up for you?
I have assigned Author rights to some of the site’s contributors, but they report that they cannot set either categories or tags for their contributions; what happens is that they can type in a tag in the appropriate box, but it doesn’t get accepted. Is this normal, or must the Administrator add tags and categories for all contributions?
Thanks for the report! Authors should be able to add new tags to their posts from the editor. Can you have them give this a try from the classic editor (https://tripelago.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php)? We’re aware of some permission errors with the new editor at wordpress.com/post.
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Hello again.
The Post Format tag appears and works OK using the classic editor, but seems to be nowhere on the new version. I assume there’s no handy command one can implement to make “full width” the default option.
On the second issue, tags can be indeed be applied using the edit function you mention – just not when an Author is actually posting.
Thanks again!
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The Post Format tag appears and works OK using the classic editor, but seems to be nowhere on the new version. I assume there’s no handy command one can implement to make “full width” the default option.
There isn’t currently a global site-wide setting for the Academica theme that would default posts to full-width. You will need to make this adjustment for each post.
On the second issue, tags can be indeed be applied using the edit function you mention – just not when an Author is actually posting.
Just to make sure we’re on the same page, you’re referring to when they try to add tags through the interface shown after clicking publish like this:
Is that correct?
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