Changing the size of the font in the comment box

  • Unknown's avatar
    lindaghill · Member ·

    I purchased the upgrade on the Yoko theme but I find the text size in the comment box is too small – my readers can’t see what they’re typing. Is there

    1. a way to change this?
    2. a way to change themes without getting a refund on my whole package and then repurchasing?

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

  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    Hi Linda,

    2. You can change themes without canceling/repurchasing by visiting the Appearance->Themes page for your site at https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/wp-admin/themes.php

    1. Each theme could be different, so these instructions apply for Yoko (though may work on others). Visit your Appearance->Customize->CSS page (direct link: https://lindaghill.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.php#css )

    Add the following in the editing box that appears:

    .wf-active form#commentform textarea#comment {
font-size: 2em;
}

    1em is the current value, so I’ve doubled the size with 2em. 2.5em or 3em may be preferable to you.

    After entering the code, click “Save” in the lower-right.

    Please let me know if you have any questions or need anything else. Cheers!

  • Unknown's avatar
    lindaghill · Member ·

    Thanks very much! It worked wonderfully. But I do have one other problem with the same theme.

    The actual comments, once they are published, are coming out huge and they get bigger with each reply. I’ve had a lot of my readers complain that they have to stand back to read, (haha) and that on some devices there are only two or three words per line. Is there any way to make the comments – all the comments – the same size as my post?

    Thanks in advance,
    Linda

  • kraftbj · Staff ·

    Hi Linda,

    It looks like something is a bit fishy with your particular theme while using our custom fonts with a size other than 0. I’ve sent a request to our theme developers to check it out.

    Thanks for your patience!

  • Unknown's avatar
    sixhours · Member ·

    Howdy!

    Thanks for bringing this bug to our attention. Yoko’s Custom Fonts should now behave, without making the font sizes so huge. I hope this helps!

    Cheers,
    Caroline

  • Unknown's avatar
    lindaghill · Member ·

    Well, they’re all constant now – no getting from big to bigger in the comment section. But now the largest font is still quite small… Is there a way for me to make it bigger than the largest it goes?

    I hate to be a pain in the neck… sorry. But one of the main reasons I paid for the custom fonts was so I could make them big enough to read for my own failing eyesight… :P

    Thanks in advance,
    Linda

  • Unknown's avatar
    rachelmcr · Member ·

    Hi Linda,

    You can use custom CSS (under Appearance > Customize > CSS in your dashboard) to customize this font size, too. Here’s an example of the CSS you can paste in the CSS editor:

    #comments .comment-body p {
font-size: 2em;
}

    You can adjust the number 2 in that code to make the font bigger or smaller than that, if you’d like.

    If you’d like to customize your theme even further, we have tips for working with CSS here:

    If you have CSS questions, most of our CSS support is done in our CSS Customization forum here:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization

    You can post customization questions there, and the expert staff and volunteers in that forum can guide you to the right solution for your theme. Please let me know if you have any questions about that. :)

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