using my fonts
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in the new edit screen, when i write a post, i cannot use my favorite fonts anymore (which i had bought from typekit)
when i press the (new) button T i am told to “toggle this option off” : how am i going to do this ??The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there, have you been adding fonts by writing HTML in the Text tab in the post and page editor something like the two examples below?
<p style="font-family: font_name;">This is the paragraph text.</p><span style="font-family: font_name;">Some text</span> -
hi and many thanks for your answer
but no, and that’s (my) problem now : i did nothing more than pressing the (then existing) button T “copy from word”
(“then existing” : if you remember, before the recent changes/updates in the edit screen, the ones by which also the many colour options dissapeared!)now, are you perhaps suggesting that i should use one of the two examples you give me? and if so, where should i add these phrases ? (i’m quite illiterate in technical matters, i don’t know anything about css for example, as you can see ! :( )
but thanx again :) and excuse my bad english, it’s a foreign language to me
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Ah, now I understand. When you press the “T” button, it puts the editor in plain text insert mode which will be indicated by a slightly darker background and border around the “T” button. When the “T” button has the darker background and border around it, you can paste directly into the editor in plain text mode and all code will be stripped out of the text you paste in.
When you again click the “T” button, it takes it out of plain text mode and you can then paste stuff directly into the editor and the editor will take care of stripping out any code that would cause issues on your site. This is the same as the old “W” button mode for pasting from MS Word and Rich Text editors.
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well, goodmorning, i tried what you said (pressed the T button, then clicked it again and pasted some stuff into the editor, to see what will happen) and nothing changed : my old fonts cannot be found anymore!
am i doing something wrong ? i don’t know, i think i will settle for it
but i cannot help being a bit sorry that these last changes in the edit screen (although great as regards photos and other multimedia like pdf – i’ve already used it!) have this result in the appearance of my posts…
(so, at least for me, nothing is as the old “W” button as it seems – it was simple and worked perfect – this change brings to my mind the parkinson’s law (when something is effectively good, it’s time to change it))
anyway many thanks again for your time :)) -
Can you paste a small part of what you are trying to paste into the editor here between code tags? Press the code button at the top of the reply box, paste in a sample and then click the code tag again. That way I can look at what you are trying to insert.
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One thing I might suggest since you are on Windows is to install the Windows Live Writer client (free download) on your system and then use that for writing your posts. You can post directly from WLW and it creates clean code that will not get stripped out.
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(if it may help you see what i mean) these links are of two posts of mine :
one with the older fonts that i liked
(it’s funny, but i think i’m beginning to like the new ones too ( ! ))
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If you had the Custom Design upgrade, we could make the change to Times New Roman there and it would change all posts and pages, but since you do not have it, we can at least make things a little easier for you. Open the Text tab in the editor and surround all your text as shown below:
<div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";>All your paragraphs and text here.</div> -
it doesn’t work. Could it be the theme ? (“rubrick” is one of the oldest and not very popular today i think – but i like it)
anyway, thank you a lot
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Hmmm, yes it is the way the CSS and HTML are structured. I would look into using the Windows Live Writer and posting direct from there instead of copy/pasting to the WordPress editor. Otherwise you have to assign the font to each individual paragraph.
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Actually, I made a mistake in the code I gave you. Give the following a try instead.
<div style="font-family: Times New Roman;">All your paragraphs and text here.</div> -
yes, now it works !
thank you
(the only problem is that i’ll have to write in the “editor” and then see my post in the “text” (or what’s its name, i have it in greek) screen – but i’ ll get used to it ! )
just a last question : shall i have to insert each and every paragraph apart in the code, or the whole (long) text (sometimes consisting of many (many) paragraphs) ? (ofcourse i can give it a try and see, but since you seem to know everything :))) )
and Thank you So Much again, Sacred Path :)))))
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shall i have to insert each and every paragraph apart in the code, or the whole (long) text (sometimes consisting of many (many) paragraphs) ?
Did you end up figuring this one out? If you still need help, it would be great if you could start a new thread, explaining the question in a bit more detail, so your question gets some attention. Thanks!
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just a last question : shall i have to insert each and every paragraph apart in the code, or the whole (long) text (sometimes consisting of many (many) paragraphs) ?
If you are using the example thesacredpath provided like this:
<div style="font-family: Times New Roman;">All your paragraphs and text here.</div>Then you the would need to add it manually around every separate section of text you wanted to change.
The reason you need to do that now and you didn’t need to in the past is that WordPress itself has changed the way text is pasted in from outside sources has changed recently. There is not a way to go back to the old way of doing it—sorry about that!
If you wanted to try to solve the problem using CSS, it’s possible to change all of the fonts at once using the CSS editor. However, that would require that you purchase the Custom Design upgrade so that you could apply the CSS changes needed. Because you’ve been manually changing your fonts inside the post editor though, it would actually be difficult to change all the past fonts at once on your site—but what you could do is change them all to a specific font for future posts you create, or you could set the font to the same one you were using in the past and then you wouldn’t have to make the same manual updates to every paragraph to get the same results that you were getting before by pasting from Word.
Anyway, I hope this explanation helps a little bit. :) If you’re interested in learning more about the Custom Design upgrade or want to see how it could work to use CSS to change fonts, reply back here and let us know.
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you tell me : “what you could do is change them all to a specific font for future posts you create, or you could set the font to the same one you were using in the past and then you wouldn’t have to make the same manual updates to every paragraph”
i’m not sure i entirely understand that – but i can tell you what i did :
i made some tests (before i saw your answer – and thanks for that!) and what i found was that i can change the fonts in many paragraphs – if i put them all together (in the code (given above by thesacredpath)) – That means much more manual work than i had before (with the W button) but at least i can have my fonts againi hope to find the time to make some more tests and see if i can replace “Times New Roman” with another font as well – if that works, it will be the only good thing resulting from this change in the editor dashboard !
thank u again designsimply :)
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There’s a paid upgrade that will let you change all of the fonts at once using CSS. You can try it out by following this instruction to set it up:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#preview-custom-design-before-purchaseFrom that point, there are a few different things you can try. Here is one of them:
body { font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 100%; }That will change all fonts to Times New Roman except for any that you have manually changed with specific HTML (like the example thesacredpath gave you or the past cut/pasting from Word).
If you try it out in your Appearance > Customize > CSS editor after clicking the Try Now button for Custom design, and then compare the posts in the live preview screen, you will see that the “søren” post has much larger fonts… this is because those fonts were set up as headings and you used a “div” code inside the post to change the font to Times New Roman. Now compare the “ο πιτσιρικάς στην κομμούνα” post, and you will see that the font and font size changed without any edits to the post directly.
I hope this helps illustrate the possibilities of the upgrade for you!
Cheers. :)
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