Font and Theme Updates Not Displaying
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Whenever I update my fonts or themes, they are not visible from my computer but they do appear visible from any computer that has never visited my blog. I gather from a prior post that this could be because my computer has a cache of the site. I tried deleting history, cookies, etc.,. but it has not worked. Moreover, I am concerned that this will happen to very computer. For example, from my home computer, the version of my blog that is visible is one that was updated a while ago, but was current the first time I accessed the site from home. It has never updated. In short, the appearance of my blog seems to be locked in to its whatever its appearance is the first time a computer accesses it. That can’t be the way it is supposed to be, is it? Anything I can do? Help!!
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Have you purchased a custom design upgrade and is this a CSS editing question?
If you have previously edited the CSS on a theme and have changed themes you will need to remove the CSS editing you did. CSS is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results.
To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.
When you alter a theme’s stylesheet, you only need to put in the Editor the modification/additions to the CSS, not the entire thing. Read this for more info:
http://csswiz.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/if-you-have-the-wp-com-css-upgrade/If you have not purchased the custom design upgrade then the following information is relevant. These are 3 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, categories and tags, widget headings, comments, and links cannot be done without CSS editing.
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Thank you for your very informative and prompt response.
I am trying my best to follow it, but am a little unsure.
I do have a custom upgrade, but I have not made any manual changes using CSS, itself. Rather, the only changes I have made have been by selecting different themes and fonts.
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I am flagging this thread so it will be moved to the CSS editing forum where you can get help. Please be patient while waiting.
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Hello gain,
We have only one Volunteer, thesacredpath who regularly assists with CSS editing and he’s not currently available. Please be patient while waiting for him or Staff to get to this thread and help you. -
I’m seeing custom fonts on your site right now. Sometimes it takes a little bit of time right at the beginning for the fonts to show up, and sometimes it also requires that you clear your browser cache and reload the page, sometimes a couple of times for the font to show up. Once everything settles down though the fonts should show up for everyone.
One thing to remember is that the visitor’s browser is having to not only download all the files from wordpress for your pages, but your browser is also having to download all the fonts you have specified from Typekit. Since everything is being retrieved from servers out on the internet, any slowdown on the internet, or any servers that might be experiencing heavy loads can possibly keep the fonts from loading in a timely manner. In general though this shouldn’t be a major issue after the first successful font loading.
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Thanks, thesacredpath. My issue is not a delay in seeing the fonts, thoug. It is that the font updates never change at all. Which custom fonts are you seeing on my site? It is set to Sorts Mill Goudy. Is that what you are seeing? If so, then it is working form your computer. If not, you may be seeing an older custom font. Thanks again.
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This is the font stack that I’m seeing.
sorts-mill-goudy-1,sorts-mill-goudy-2,Palatino,"Times New Roman",serifThe last three are fallbacks in case something goes wrong and the first two cannot be pulled from Typekit for some reason.
I will say that they first time I viewed your site just now, none of the custom fonts loaded. I had to force refresh the page.
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I am not sure what you mean by font stack, sorry.
Also, unfortunately, I can’t see any of the fonts, and it seems like a problem than you would need to “force refresh” the page to seem them. Is there anything thing I can do to fix that, and what does that mean? Thanks so much.
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I checked http://charlottesville29.wordpress.com/ just now and I could see the fonts working normally. I’m not sure yet what might be happening on your side. One way to force refresh would be to try clearing your browser cache. Can you try that?
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Thanks, designsimply. I tried clearing cache and cookies once before, and re-tried it just now without any luck. but, thank you.
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@charlottesville29
Exactly which browser and version of it are your using?
If your browser version is outdated you can upgrade it here.
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