Larger Font Size
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Hi,
I would just like to suggest a little bit larger font size for the text. It would give a cleaner look and be easier to read.
Thanks!
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i agree, some of the templates have very small font…it would be nice to have control of font size like i have on stumbleupon….but to solve the problem and maybe this helps you, i switched to a different template that came with larger fonts….
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You can zoom in and enlarge fonts on any web site or page within your browser. Go to the view menu and there is a zoom in and zoom out command and the keyboard shortcuts for your particular browser and OS will be show there as well.
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Couldn’t they use HTML as a solution? I’ve been messing with mine for years by using a variation of
<p align="left"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#808080;font-size:medium;">stuff here</span></p>font size can be xx-small; x-small; small; medium; large; x-large; xx-large
The open commands go at the start of a paragraph, the close ones at the end. It does means copy and pasting for each paragraph. I’m not an HTML expert by any stretch, I just lucked into something that has worked for me…
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They could indeed, but it is tedious since they have to tag every paragraph and make sure to close the tags, etc.
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– The align-left command isn’t needed, since that’s the default.
– You can write the style commands in a div tag. That will take care of the whole post instead of single paragraphs.
– You can adjust size in a more precise way by using percentages.
Example:
<div style="font-family:Times New Roman;color:#808080;font-size:120%;"> COMPLETE_CONTENT_HERE </div> -
…it just took me less than four minutes to copy and paste HTML to twenty paragraphs, and mine’s a little weirder than what I left here — two fonts per paragraph. If someone’s only putting up four to eight paragraphs it might be tedious, but it would only last a minute or two.
Or they could use the ‘div /div’ tag and get it over with in a few seconds.
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@feartheseeds: Agree. I always prepare my posts in a simple text editor, and I’ve got a file where I save the codes I use regularly; I write all the text first, then copy each code I need and paste it repeatedly.
By the way, if you use the same two fonts per paragraph, maybe you can make it even faster: you can write the starting font in a div tag (for the whole post), and use span tags for the portions that are different.
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hi, I think there should be a font-size icon at the bar on top of where we write our post, to enable us to adjust the font size more easily. I think it is a very important specification, so that we can alter font size not just by paragraphs, but by words. html would be a little bit tedious and messy if we intend to alter the font size of words which is sandwiched in between paragraphs.
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I think it would be great if fonts within all templates were changeable. With the limited array of templates available on WP, I felt many of the styles I would have loved to change my blog to, were let down my sparse fonts, not so nice colours etc.
With the superb funtionality of WP as it is I’m surprised this is not already possible.
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I am new to blogs and I agree that there should be a “thingy” on your post “font size” so you dont have to put the code in all the time…. It would be nice….
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One thing all of you might consider is to get a blog client such as Windows Live Writer or BlogDesk (windows – both free) or Ecto or MarsEdit (Mac – around $20 and $30 respectively). In addition to giving you the ability to select fonts and sizes, they will also publish your posts directly (and upload any included images) without having to go through the wordpress editor. As a bonus it saves copies of your posts right on your computer.
This blog post reviews some of them and gives you links: http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/offline-blog-editors-reviews/
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to thesacredpath:
Think, that this problem will be solved if there is a new widget, like in drupal, that visitor of the blog can set from ” small, medium or large font size” without scrooling the mouse.
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add to thesacredpath:
anyone wants to have “milions of accounts” and do the work simpler and no much difficult and someone don´t like to work with external editors, but work only in Wp.
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@panaghiotisadam: Probably the simplest code would be this:
<div style="font-style:normal;font-size:120%;">ENTIRE POST</div>That leaves your theme’s default font style intact, and all it does is change the size. If there are no other “div” codes in the post, it’s good for the whole thing, with the tag closing code at the end of the post.
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Having a small medium and large selection for visitors is probably not going to happen since it would require hacking all the themes here to add it in – not a small job.
Besides, the ability to enlarge fonts is built right into every browser (view menu), so why duplicate it on the theme?
As far as being able to select a font size from a pulldown in the editor, I doubt that will happen either. The TinyMCE editor that wordpress uses has that built into it, but wordpress purposely disables it, and I’m not certain what the reason is, but I’m sure they have one.
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@TSP, for years I’ve been squinting at computer screens trying to read it, thanks I had no clue I had that ‘view menu’. I can read now! LOL
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You’re welcome, and I think there are far fewer out there that know about the zoom in/zoom out or increase size/decrease size functions built into their browsers. Note also that there are keyboard shortcuts, typically ctrl + and ctrl – for windows and cmd + and cmd – for Macs.
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