Font problems, navigating, and a general WTF?

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  cremnomaniac · Member · Oct 28, 2014 at 1:18 am

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  I haven’t written a new blog in several years. In that time WordPress has changed some things. I am finding those changes to be far from intuitive. For instance, I am unable to figure out why FONTs with the Vigilance theme are no longer displayed the way they used to. They have changed. The header FONT looks okay under dashboard, but in blog view its blocky rendering and looks nothing like the dashboard. Post title fonts are sick looking because they aren’t the original font I posted with.
  1. The changes a numerous. Where do I go to get caught up?
  2. What happened to the ability to manage fonts? Each post now has some funky title font.

  I know I’ve been gone for a while, but I find the changes to be far from improvements on my end. WordPress WAS pretty easy to work with. Too bad the very helpful support contact has been ended, as well. It was also great.
  I’ll give it a chance but at this moment I’m not thrilled.

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

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  cremnomaniac · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 6:20 am

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  So it appears that without “Forum” assistance users are now out in the cold when problems arise. That’s not encouraging. I’m starting to figure a few things out, but I’m also getting a bit frustrated by some of it.
  If I have to reply to myself, maybe I’ll just make this my blog.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 6:48 am

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  You could just read the sticky posts at the top of the forum, or do a search of Support documents.

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  cremnomaniac · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 6:56 pm

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  Thanks but that doesn’t explain why the FONT displayed in the header are blocky looking. As I said, it looks fine in the dashboard view, not on the post page.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 8:32 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m not quite sure what you mean. This is what I see when I go to your site:

  

  It is also what I see when I’m on a specific post page.

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  cremnomaniac · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 9:09 pm

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  What I am seeing is this in the Dashboard
  http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss29/RikRay/Header10-31-2014-15522PM_zps410c1a1e.jpg

  And this is on the front page of my blog
  http://i558.photobucket.com/albums/ss29/RikRay/Header10-31-2014-15441PM_zps7283d0b7.jpg
  I use firefox this is what I am seeing.

  When I tried IE the dashboard is the same, but my front page looks like the image you posted.
  Problem then is –
  1. Dashboard and header do not match in either browser, and
  2. Firefox is rendering the front page font badly, or nor at all

  Thank you,

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 9:29 pm

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  Hi there,

  I see what you mean. Unfortunately, there looks to be something off with theme, but the theme has been retired as seen here:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/retired/vigilance/

  Please apply a newer theme by going to:

  http://theme.wordpress.com

  A couple similar themes are:

  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentythirteen/
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentytwelve/
  http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/reddle/

  Let me know if you have any questions with a new theme!

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  cremnomaniac · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 9:44 pm

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  Thank you for the help. I am finding that Firefox seems to be changing fonts despite having it set to “allow sites to choose” font.

  I will look a newer themes.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Oct 31, 2014 at 9:50 pm

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  Ah I see. Sounds like a plan!

  Cheers!