changing colour, etc. inside an article

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 12:22 pm

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  Hello,

  I have been using WordPress.com free for a few years now, and have found it very non-user friendly for such simple things as changing the font or size or colour of words, sentences, etc., INSIDE an article, without affecting the remainder of the blog. Basically, it’s a non-starter. So I thought I would try Premium, assuming it would allow for another tool bar or equivalent which would facilitate this kind of customization.

  Currently, I am in the first real day of the 14 day free trial, and I cannot find anywhere to carry out these oh-so-simple tasks. Is CSS the only way to go? And if it is, I cannot see the vertical bar on the right side of CSS which might allow changes.

  Is there no way to have a button bar as in Word where you can select font, size, colour, etc.?

  Thanks.

  Guy Trudeau

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  Hi Guy!

  It sounds like your editor is collapsed to one row of icons. You can open the second row of icons by clicking on the very last icon on the top row:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2

  Does that cover the things you want to do?

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 6:08 pm

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  Hello Shawna,

  Yes, as a matter of fact it does, thank you kindly. Is this second row of the editor part of the free setup, or only with Premium?

  Thanks again.

  Guy

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  shawnajroberts · Member · Apr 29, 2015 at 6:12 pm

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  The second row in the editor is available for everyone at any plan level. :)

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · Apr 30, 2015 at 7:01 am

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  Thank you.

  Guy

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · May 5, 2015 at 3:56 pm

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  As a follow-up to my earlier question, can I change the colours of the post titles, so that when I have several different categories of posts, each will have its own title colour?

  I tried using the extended editor’s colour icon to no avail.

  I am using the Chateau theme.

  Thanks.

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 5, 2015 at 5:35 pm

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  The color of Post titles can be changed with custom CSS in the Premium plan. I took a look at the posts on your front page, and I only see posts in the Category “Uncategorized”.

  If you wanted to change the color of uncategorized posts, you would add this piece of code to the CSS pane in your Customizer:

  .category-uncategorized .post-title h1 a {
  	color: red;
  }

  You can modify this to word for any category by changing “category-uncategorized”. If your category is “Image”, you would change this to “category-image”.

  Let me know if I can help further!

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · May 7, 2015 at 4:15 pm

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  Thanks Shawna,

  I tried it and indeed it works, but my goodness, it’s certainly not my cup of tea. It reminds me of working in DOS 28 years ago. This CSS appears rather archaic. I am currently trying the premium version. So if I understand you correctly, the only way to change the post title colour is if one has ‘premium’, correct?

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  shawnajroberts · Member · May 7, 2015 at 5:48 pm

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  Because you want to target specific categories to change the color of, yes you’ll need the Premium plan to change the color of these post titles.

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  mirmandepatrimoines · Member · May 8, 2015 at 8:45 am

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  OKayyyyyy.

  Guy