Lodestar: increasing paragraph font size

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 8:16 am

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  Howdy,

  I would like to slightly increase the font size on paragraph tags in the .entry-content class (I think) of my posts without affecting other paragraph tags.

  All help appreciated. :)

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

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  yashitamittal · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:25 am

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  Hi justjennifer,

  You need to add custom CSS in your site.
  Custom CSS is a feature of the WordPress.com Premium and WordPress.com Business plans.

  You can add custom CSS to your WordPress.com blog using the CSS Editor in My Sites → Customize → CSS in your blog dashboard.

  You can write this CSS to increase the font-size.

  .entry-content p {
  font-size: 20px;
  }
  Just change the font-size to your liking.

  Thanks
  Yashita

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:25 am

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  Hi justjennifer,

  This CSS should do what you are looking for:

  .entry-content p {
      font-size: 1.1em;
  }

  This increases the size of paragraph tags within the post content — not entry meta like dates, authors and categories or any other elements on the page.

  Let me know if it needs tweaking at all.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:33 am

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  Thanks all. :)

  
  @gemmacevans, I added that to the Customizer earlier and didn’t see any change in the font size so probably I left out something in the expression. Will try again and let you know.

  
  @yashita – from one volunteer to another, adding links to relevant support guides is really helpful to others too. :) Thanks!

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:44 am

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  Ah-Just noting that the last curly bracket in @gemmacevans’ reply should be a right one. :)

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:45 am

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  Sure, I can take another look if you are still aren’t seeing any changes after trying again :)

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  gemmacevans · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:47 am

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  Well spotted, sorry about that! I’ve just amended it in my reply so it doesn’t confused anyone else.

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  justjennifer · Member · Jul 10, 2018 at 9:58 am

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  In the end I went with 1.05em which was just enough to get the job done without mucking up the lovely line-spacing.

  Thank you both for the quick replies. :)