Page Headings
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I am still getting my head around using wordpress…
The page heading ‘box’ in Hever are rather large and I don’t seem to be able to edit them. I would like to decrease the size of the space around the top page headings. At the moment, there’s a lot of blank space surrounding the text.
I can’t select the heading as a ‘block’ when I’m editing the page.
Is there a way to change the amount of space that’s given to the page headings?
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Hi there,
Hever doesn’t have any built-in options to change this, no. While Hever is a newer theme, it predates the site editor, so theme elements, like post/page titles, the menu, widget area, etc, aren’t controlled via blocks, but coded into the theme itself. So the only way to change how those elements look and behave is by modifying or overriding the theme’s code.
In this case, to change the spacing around the titles, you need to use custom CSS code to override the theme’s styling. Custom CSS can be used on our Pro plan:
https://wordpress.com/en/support/editing-css/
If you switched to one of the new block themes you’d have full control over this. I had a look over your site, and it doesn’t look like you’re using widgets or any features specific to Hever, so you should be able to create something looking very similar using, for example, https://wordpress.com/theme/marl as a starting point.
With block themes all elements on the page are controlled by blocks, and you’re able to modify the post and page templates for the theme themselves from the Site Editor, so you could start with that theme, and tweak it to look the way you want.
If you’d like to explore this option some more, you can find an overview of how the site editor works here:
https://wordpress.com/en/support/site-editor/
Just a quick clarification before you dive in (as this tend to trip people up): When you open your site in the site editor you’ll see your content there, and you can also add content in the site editor. But the site editor is really for editing the theme templates. The content you see in the site editor are inserted via placeholder blocks, that display the content you actually create in the post/page editor.
If you keep that distinction clear in your mind, you should be able to figure out how it works fairly quickly :)
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Thank you.
Am I able to change the theme and apply this to all of the posts/pages already created without having to duplicate everything?
To do this, do I go to ‘Appearance’ – ‘Theme’ – and then ‘Install’ the new theme?
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Am I able to change the theme and apply this to all of the posts/pages already created without having to duplicate everything?
The new theme will automatically be applied to your current site. So all your content will still be there, just displayed according to the design of the new theme.
To do this, do I go to ‘Appearance’ – ‘Theme’ – and then ‘Install’ the new theme?
You go to Appearance ->Themes and activate the theme you want, yes. On WordPress.com all the themes are already installed, so you just switch to the one you want to use.
If you click to activate a theme and see the option to switch to the theme’s default homepage, don’t select that, as you already have your homepage configured. Instead you can just tweak the design afterwards.
Also, if I wanted to keep the same fonts, how do I know which ones are used with Hever?
You’re using the default fonts in Hever, which is PT Sans (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Sans). Hever uses the same theme for headings and content text.
I checked and it doesn’t look like PT Sans is available to set as a custom font, but Roboto is very similar, and is often used as a fallback-font for PT Sans, so you could select that one instead.
You can find details on how to set a custom font for your site here:
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