Can I alter size of title font in my wordpress.com blog w/o buying Custom CSS?
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Hi. I have a wordpress.com blog using the “MistyLook” theme (you can see the blog here: http://scavenging.wordpress.com/ ). The theme is pretty much exactly how I want it to look, with one exception: I want the point size of the blog’s title to be larger.
I looked into this issue and it seems that the only way to do that is to purchase Custom CSS for $15/year. But I hesitate buying it because all I really want to do is change a single number in the CSS code to change the size of one line of text. Yet Custom CSS is really for people that want to more extensively customize their whole theme.
Is there ANY way to alter the point size of the title aside from buying Custom CSS? (I tried putting HTML code in the title itself, but that didn’t work.)
Also, a side issue: I’m currently using the “MistyLook” theme (http://wprocks.com/free-wordpress-themes/mistylook-37-now-available/), which I chose quite a while ago. Yet in the current list of possible wordpress.com available themes (in my “Appearance” Dashboard section), MistyLook is no longer available. So, I’m afraid that if I test out another theme for a while, and then don’t like it, I won’t be able to go back to to MistyLook, because there’s no longer a way to re-select it!
So: How am I able to be using the “MistyLook” theme if it is not among the available wordpress.com themes? And if I unselect it, is it gone forever? And if it never was one of the available wordpress.com themes, how can it be that I am currently using it?
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rosclarke:
Nope. Not for me. Goes straight from the “Light” theme to the “Monotone” theme, on page 3 of the available themes. Mistylook is definitely not there.
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Oh, wait, something just occurred to me: Perhaps the current theme that one has selected is NOT listed among the available themes? But that once you un-select it and choose another, the first theme which you had previously been using re-appears in the list, while the new one that you have just chosen disappears (for as long as you’ve chosen it)? I think that must be the explanation. rosclarke: is the theme which you are currently using available in your “Appearance” dashboard? If not, that explains my second question.
But it still doesn’t answer my main question: Is there a way to alter the size of the title (without buying Custom CSS)?
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Well there sort of is… if you choose a theme that includes a header image that covers the region where the title appears, AND the theme lets you replace that image, then you could build the title into the image.
Mistylook doesn’t quite fit this — it’s got a replaceable image that could include your title, but that’s not where the title currently appears, so you might not like the revised layout.
(I’m assuming that the theme’s title will disappear if you set title = blank, but I haven’t tried it.)
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And now that I recycle lessons learned from devblog: You *could* add a text widget whose function is to stick a piece of text in front of the existing title, which you can style how you want. For example, add a text widget with no title, and insert the following: (You might need to unwrap the line.)
<div style=”color:red; font-size:3em; line-height:1.5em; position:absolute; left:.5em; top:0; background-color:white;”>A replacement blog title</div>
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