Site description and text shadow

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  umg1 · Member · Jun 29, 2015 at 3:43 am

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  Hello all,

  The site I need help with is higheredinsight.com. I’ve figured out a way to add a text shadow to the site-title, but I can’t for the life of me add it to the site-description. Nothing I’ve tried seems to work.

  Many thanks for your help.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 29, 2015 at 5:29 am

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  Hi, umg1
  Before we get into adding shadow to the site-description, lets clear up another issue first. Did you know that it’s against the WordPress.com terms of service to remove the WordPress.com and theme credits from the footer area of a WP.com-hosted site? See, for example, the comments by member timethief, citing the relevant ToS section and a support document, and by Happiness Engineer jackiedana, in the forum topic Removing Blog Credits Bar at Bottom of Blog?

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 29, 2015 at 5:32 am

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  See also the more recent relevant topic “Change Footer Text.”

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  umg1 · Member · Jun 29, 2015 at 2:09 pm

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  Thank you for your response, and I’ll share this with the person who manages the site. I was tasked with simply coming up for the CSS with this and don’t have access to the customization under my own account to make the change — which is why I manually typed the site address in my post.

  I’d still very much like to create a text shadow around the site description if someone could help me with that.

  Thank you again.

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  umg1 · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 2:47 pm

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  Giving this a bump out of desperation…

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 6:16 pm

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  I see that the other issue I mentioned has been corrected. Thanks. You might also submit the request regarding adding shadow to site-description to the CSS Customization forum.

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  umg1 · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 6:53 pm

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  Thanks. I believe I am posting the CSS customization forum. I can see this post in the link you sent, as well as in the breadcrumb above.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 7:12 pm

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  Oops! Sorry. You are in the correct forum. I’m apparently in left field.

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  briansteeleca · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 7:41 pm

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  I see that you already have a text shadow on the description – it’s using the same text-shadow as your site-title. If you want to isolate site-description to make its shadow stand out more, you can increase it’s opacity like so:

  .site-description {
    font-size: 1.1em;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0) !important;
  }

  You can see that I added !important to the text-shadow rule to make sure it overrides any other rule that may come after it. It’s best not to use !important if possible, so I would recommend that you try it without !important first, and only add it if necessary.

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  umg1 · Member · Jul 1, 2015 at 9:19 pm

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  Thank you! That worked great.