not enough customizing options.
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I’m trying out the premium version for free.
I’m doing it since your page states that the premium version offers fonts choice and “many more customizing options”.
it seems that even in the premium version I can’t even choose to have the page title in small letters, it by default changes to capital letters. is that really possible?
and even worse – it seems I can’t even move the black box containing the page titel to wherever in the header I want. maybe I DO’NT want it to end up right over someone’s face.
I can’t even choose the size of the box.as far as customizing opportunities for the header/page title it seems the only options I’ll get If I purchase this version for 80 EURO is choosing among some fonts.
really so?
or have I missed something?all best
fredrikThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there! Happy to address all your questions (and any more you can think of!) :)
it seems that even in the premium version I can’t even choose to have the page title in small letters, it by default changes to capital letters. is that really possible?
This depends on your theme. But any theme that does this likely uses the CSS property text-transform, so it can always be changed back to the value you originally typed with some Custom CSS.
and even worse – it seems I can’t even move the black box containing the page titel to wherever in the header I want. maybe I DO’NT want it to end up right over someone’s face.
I can’t even choose the size of the box.I think this was specific to when your blog was running Hemingway Rewritten? It’s using Kelly right now, so I could be wrong. But in Hemingway Rewritten, that box and its text can also be removed with some custom CSS:
.site-branding-wrapper{ display: none; }Or we could do other things, like make the “black” box changed to “transparent” and change the color the text to pop against the image. Or make the box have rounded edges… but these would all require CSS changes, it’s not customizable through changing settings.
as far as customizing opportunities for the header/page title it seems the only options I’ll get If I purchase this version for 80 EURO is choosing among some fonts.
really so?
or have I missed something?Most header/page title customizations are available without Premium. The biggest addition for Premium in terms of header/page title is that you have access to adjusting CSS, which can customize the look and feel of anything that’s on the page.
The simplest way to customize your site is to start with the theme that’s closest to what you want:
For example, Hemingway Rewritten is probably not the theme for you because of that black box. But you might like having the option to use both the Custom Header and Site Logo, to maximize what you can do in the header, so these might be a good place to start:
https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/custom-header+site-logo/
But the Premium plan extends beyond customizations in the Header, there’s a lot of featured provided:
But it looks like the customizations you’re most interested in will require the use of Custom CSS — and that will require the Premium plan.
Please let me know if you have other questions to make the most of your free trial! :)
-Alex G.
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hi again! your name suggests you might be swedish. if so, we could do the rest of this in swedish.what I still don’t understand is: I can’t see from a themes demo if I’ll be able to change the name to small letters – or if the tag line will at all be displayed.it is very time consuming looking through the themes, picking one that seems okey, install it, and then notice that this very theme can’t have the name in small letters, or, as in many cases, that the tag line won’t even be displayed. frustrating and time consuming. how can i see that before installing the themes?and this CSS coding – how can I learn how to handle that?all best
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I’m American, but with Swedish heritage. :)
Faster than activating a potential theme is to Preview it:
I’d suggest adding a couple more posts and pages to your site to make the most of those previews. But previewing a theme will let you see how it treats things in the header as you’ve mentioned much faster.
Looking at your General Settings though, it appears that your site title and tagline are currently written in all lowercase. Most themes do not transform the case of the letters, so unless you add some capitalization there a lot will appear in all lowercase.
and this CSS coding – how can I learn how to handle that?all best fredrik
There are a lot of free resources to learn CSS. We get you started with the basics and link to several other tutorials here:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/css-basics/
But if there’s a specific customization that you want to do, but cannot figure out the CSS, we have a forum specifically for that:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization
Several volunteers and WordPress.com staff hang out in there to help you the code you need.
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okey then. some specific questions:1 I’ve settled for the theme Manifesto and I want the page title to be in small letters, but that theme does not want it so.I’ve found a CSS code on the web that will supposedly do the trick, but I guess I’ll have to insert it at the right place in the pages CSS code.If i open the CSS tab in the customizing menu, there’s just at text about that I can do CSS changes, but there seems to be no way to get the full code visible so that I can maybe deduct where to insert the code.2 I would also like to be able to change the colour of the individual letters (making the title appear rainbow-like) and I hope there’s some way of achieving that?3 Can I just go on asking you like this? I mean I’ll probably have 30 more questions before I get it all styled the way I want.thanx and all best
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Hi Fredrik!
Going through your questions separately:
I’ve settled for the theme Manifesto and I want the page title to be in small letters, but that theme does not want it so.
Here’s some CSS to change the title “alltihopa” back to however you’ve typed it in (all lowercase right now), instead of all uppercase:
#site-title{ text-transform: initial; }Too add this CSS in, open up your blog’s Customizer here:
https://feffesite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffeffesite.wordpress.com%2F
Choose the CSS tab, copy+paste that code into the CSS text editor, then click the blue Save button.
If i open the CSS tab in the customizing menu, there’s just at text about that I can do CSS changes, but there seems to be no way to get the full code visible so that I can maybe deduct where to insert the code.
Any CSS you wish to add, just do so below the comments. Like this example.
That editor is the last stylesheet to load on your site, so the CSS you enter there will take over any previous styles from the theme.
I would also like to be able to change the colour of the individual letters (making the title appear rainbow-like) and I hope there’s some way of achieving that?
Hmm, this would require each letter to have a different selector, and the site title is saved as a one h1 element. We could use gradients to make rainbow-colored background with one element, but I don’t think text color doesn’t support gradients.
Could you perhaps create an image with the text rainbow as you like it, then we can hide the Site title text, and display the image of rainbow-colored text?
Can I just go on asking you like this? I mean I’ll probably have 30 more questions before I get it all styled the way I want
You can absolutely ask me! :)
The folks in the CSS customization forum will often know more than me, (like they might know how to make a rainbow-colored site title) but I can always give it a shot. :)
-Alex G.
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thanx! wonderful!I think I’ll wait some with the coloured letters.But: when i published my first piece, I noticed that I could change fonts and text colour in the body text, but not in the “headline” of the piece.I’m sure there must be a way of doing that, no?all for nowvery gratefulfredrik
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and – what would be the code to insert to force the title page – both title and description – to change the text colour from default black to a colour of my choice?again
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This CSS will change the color of all your post titles to a bright violet:
.entry-title , h3.entry-title>a{ color: #7234ef; }Just replace that #7234ef with the hex-value of any color you prefer. I like to use ColorHexa for finding colors’ hex values.
If you want to change each new post title to a different color, you’ll need to add a new selector that uniquely identifies that post’s title instead of all post titles. Let me know if that’s what you want and I’ll create steps on how to create the selector.
what would be the code to insert to force the title page – both title and description – to change the text colour from default black to a colour of my choice?
To adjust the site title’s color:
#site-title>a{ color: #7234ef; }To adjust the tagline’s color:
#site-description{ color: #7234ef; }Again, switching out #7234ef for whatever color you prefer. :)
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thanx! slowly getting there.
three more questions for now:1: the text colour is now the same on title, tag line , and entry headline,
but not on “about”, “february 9, 2015” and – most importantly – the body text.Still it’s the very same hex-value that I’ve used in the CSS code and in the body text value.
2: the tag line is in italics, I would like it not to be.3: The “ABOUT” button is a bit to visible sitting right at the top.Can i move it – or even get rid of it?still very grateful
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and – the body text don’t seem to be the same font as the rest,
and there doesn’t seem to be a way to choose font in the body texy editor.again
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Let’s handle these a little out of order. :)
2: the tag line is in italics, I would like it not to be.
More CSS to the rescue!
Change this bit:
#site-description { color: #401f0e; }Turn it into this:
#site-description { color: #401f0e; font-style: normal; }3: The “ABOUT” button is a bit to visible sitting right at the top.Can i move it – or even get rid of it?
This is part of your default Menu. You don’t have to anything in your Menu, but moving it isn’t really possible. So here’s how to get rid of it. :)
- Visit your menu settings.
- Click the blue Create Menu button.
- Make sure the Auto-add option is not selected to keep your menu clear if you add future pages.
- Edit any menu items and click remove.
- Save menu
1: the text colour is now the same on title, tag line , and entry headline, but not on “about”, “february 9, 2015” and – most importantly – the body text.Still it’s the very same hex-value that I’ve used in the CSS code and in the body text value.
Since you’re removing the menu, won’t worry about that. When I visit your site, I’m actually seeing the body text and post date appear as the same color:
Verified this by checking the hex values in Chrome dev tools too.
Sometimes viewing the site in Customizer custom body-text colors can look a little off though. It’s a known bug. :/ Is that where you saw the colors being different?
and – the body text don’t seem to be the same font as the rest, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to choose font in the body texy editor
It looks to me (and in those screenshots) that Skolar is correctly loading in the title and body text, as it should but any time your browser can’t connect to typekit (where Skolar ‘lives’) it will display Palatino, Times New Roman, or Serif (in that order) as a backup.
Could you take a screenshot of the fonts you’re seeing? Once you have the screenshot, just upload it to your media library and I’ll take a look. :)
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hi again.don’t worry about the fonts and all that, got it right eventually.
but the menu stuff…! you wrote:
Visit your menu settings. Click the blue Create Menu button. Make sure the Auto-add option is not selected to keep your menu clear if you add future pages. Edit any menu items and click remove. Save menu and I’m afraid point 4 and 5 means nothing to me any “editing” I get to do under point 4
seems to got nothing to do with moving the button. and when i try to even delete the button AND save
i can still se the ugly button over the heads of the children. begone ye fiend!
but it’s starting to shape upfeffe
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hi! adding two more questions
1) as I guess you can see, the site description line needs to be VERY small fonts in order to fit into one line.
is there no way to force it to be in somewhat bigger fonts – and then of course have to stretch further under the header?
which I by the way wouldn’t mind at all.2) how can I manage the entry title?
I want to be able to control IF the entry title should be one line only or, at least, decide WHERE to break the line if it needs to be broken.gettin’ there – havin’ fun
feffe
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I’m afraid point 4 and 5 means nothing to me any “editing” I get to do under point 4 seems to got nothing to do with moving the button. and when i try to even delete the button AND save i can still se the ugly button over the heads of the children. begone ye fiend! but it’s starting to shape up
Looks like you got rid of the menu buttons, but there’s still that shaded area. Here’s how you can remove it:
#main-nav{ visibility: hidden; }the site description line needs to be VERY small fonts in order to fit into one line. is there no way to force it to be in somewhat bigger fonts – and then of course have to stretch further under the header? which I by the way wouldn’t mind at all.
Take out this bit:
#site-description { color: #401f0e; font-style: normal; }Add in this:
#site-description { color: #401f0e; font-style: normal; padding: 0; margin: 18px 0px 60px; width: 500px; font-size: 1.508em !important; }That’s the largest the font can be within the column of the rest of the site. Lower that 1.508 number to make it smaller if you want. :)
how can I manage the entry title? I want to be able to control IF the entry title should be one line only or, at least, decide WHERE to break the line if it needs to be broken.
I don’t know of any way to manage line breaks for an entry title (other than writing short headlines). Sorry. :(
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okey, so far so good.
but concerning the entry title: surely there must be a way to at least choose the font size of the entry title?
or is it really only in the entry body text itself that the font size can be altered?feffe
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hi!
missed my morning problem-solved-relief this time. just kidding. I’m still surprised I can really get my questions answered this easily by someone I don’t even know. first, just in case the last question was missed: concerning the entry title: surely there must be a way to at least choose the font size of the entry title?
or is it really only in the entry body text itself that the font size can be altered?and: how do I change my website adress? right now it’s feffesite.wordpress.com and I would like to have the “feffesite” bit changed to “alltihopa”.all best
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Yes, you can change the font size of entry title. Here’s one that would affect only your title that breaks into two lines:
.post-91 .entry-title>a , .post-91 h3.entry-title{ font-size: 1.38em; }You can use this code on any future posts, just change the “91” to the new post’s ID. Find it by editing the post and looking at the URL (example)
Raise and lower the 1.38 number to make it bigger or smaller.
hi! missed my morning problem-solved-relief this time. just kidding. I’m still surprised I can really get my questions answered this easily by someone I don’t even know.
Haha, sorry about that! Tuesday is a day off for me and it looks like other Happiness Engineers got a ton of new requests in. But I’m here now!
how do I change my website adress? right now it’s feffesite.wordpress.com and I would like to have the “feffesite” bit changed to “alltihopa”
So long as the new address name is available, you can change it to that using these steps:
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super!will try that.thanx again. with this pace we can soon mark the “problem” resolved
all best
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