Font Size change within the Blog
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There’s a lot of info about changing the font and the headings. But my blog writing is too small and I simply want to increase the size of it for easier reading.
Blog url: http://denisesmusings.wordpress.com/The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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If anyone can tell me how to increase the size of my blog writing a little, I would be pleased. I’m happy with the font.
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Lovely to hear from someone. Shock.
I’m about to buy the font upgrade for typeface reasons. But I notice (having played around this morning) that even if I buy that – that the options are only to increase by a factor of three the font size in the blogging area and that hardly makes any difference. -
Glad to find this discussion. My whole site changed font size very suddenly yesterday. It was after trying unsuccessfuly to embed a you tube video, then I cut and pasted the url into a post and everything shrunk, even the dashboard. Its as if the whole site has narrowed into about two thirds of the screen and there’
s loads of empty space around it. Any hints? -
Glad to find this discussion. My whole site changed font size very suddenly yesterday. It was after trying unsuccessfuly to embed a you tube video, then I cut and pasted the url into a post and everything shrunk, even the dashboard. Its as if the whole site has narrowed into about two thirds of the screen and there’
s loads of empty space around it. Any hints? -
Yes.
1) go to Dashboard->Settings->General and select “wordpress should correct invalidly nested XHTML” because what you have is a classic error of invalidly nested XHTML, meaning somewhere you either added an extra tag or left off a closing tag.
2) Go to Dashboard->Posts, select all posts, set to Draft, then set back to Published. That should force the change in 1) to take effect on them, and solve the problem.
If those two don’t fix it, what you have is a browser problem, and you need to adjust the monitor resolution or do a Cookie Dance for your browser http://raincoastermedia.com/2012/05/01/the-cookie-dance/
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Thanks raincoaster – tried the first two but no difference so going onto the next suggestion. Will update soon with good news, hopefuly!
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With the Custom design upgrade, you get both the Custom Fonts from Typekit and also the ability to change the CSS, so we can change the font size via CSS easily and permanently. If you did not buy it, then you would have to change the font size manually on each post and page using HTML. It isn’t complicated HTML, but still it would have to be done each time you created a post or page. With CSS, we can make a permanent change and then all you have to worry about is blogging.
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@robertajune, it could be that the zoom level on your browser got set to something other than standard since it affected the dashboard too.
Go to the view menu in your browser and reset the zoom level back to normal.
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Thank you sacred path. I shall buy the upgrade later when card sorted as want the improved graphics. I hope you will be around a little longer – maybe tomorrow when I have to grapple with CSS, which I would like.
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sacredpath: thanks for that. Tried it and no change. Also tried the cookie dance and still no change. I’m thinking now, after trying all these options,that it is to do with the visual editor because the whole thing changed when I tried to embed a you tube video, then I pasted the url into the draft post – thanks to all advisors, onwards and upwards :)
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When I view your site, and put the Koi demo page right beside your page, all the text is exactly the same size on both. Titles, body content, links, widgets, everything and I’ve checked in both Firefox and in Safari, so I haven’t a clue. There isn’t anything wrong with your site that I can see. It looks just like the demo page for Koi.
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Oh right-oh then, thanks. Maybe I had the whole thing on a higher zoom originally then and something corrected it? Good to hear it looks okay from another viewer and thanks again for taking this trouble. Best wishes, Roberta :)
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Well actually when I view the koi demo it’s how my site used to be so if viewers are still seeing it at that resolution and font size, but I am not, then there is something wrong with my browser and / or computer. Great to get this piece of the puzzle filled in anyway, thanks again :)
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I still think it is the zoom level, but you said you reset that, so I’m not sure what else it could be.
What browser and browser version are you experiencing the issue with?
Have you viewed your site in a different browser on your computer?
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Good morning. I sorted my bank card and then discovered that the buy new font is not available on my site now. I used exactly the same one as on my WordPress blog – copied it over to a hosted site. Got all my old posts on and then went to customize but it’s not there. Can’t change the font. This option is there on the one held at WordPress but exactly the same Layout/design downloaded to new home and with old file copied over – not there. I can see it is supposedly possible to upload Typekit which I tried to do even used the term Enbed. But nothing happens. I am so disappointed as I want this for my main site and I find the graphics at the top thick and ugly. Do you know if anything is possible?
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So, you have now self-hosted your site on a third-party hosting service?
If so, then you need to head over to http://wordpress.ORG/support/ as that is where the self-hosted software is supported. You are going to find that a lot of the features here at wordpress.com are missing from your self-hosted site. Some of them can be picked back up with plugins, but not all of them can.
For fonts, you will have to get a Typekit account and then you are going to have to hack the theme files and then manually modify the CSS to get the fonts in and working, and you really don’t want to hack the original files as the first update to the theme that comes along will wipe out your hacks. You will need to create your own child theme so that it references the original theme, but doesn’t get overwritten during an upgrade.
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