Which WordPress.com themes have customizable header & ability to change fonts?
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Hi everyone,
I thought I had this all figured out but now I’m befuddled. I want to find a basic free theme to use on WordPress.com (that’s the free hosting option, not the .org self-hosted option) that I can customize. I need to be able to use a custom header and have control over the layout.
I thought TwentyTen was perfect, but then once I got in there I found out I can’t change the font size and font colors.
Does ANYONE out there know which one of the 1,468 themes would work for this? I’ve searched to no avail … I’m not familiar enough with WordPress but I’m working on learning it. I’m hoping an experienced person can point me in the right direction!
Thank you
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The only themes we can use on WordPress.com are found on your dashboard under Appearance -> Themes.
You can also see what’s available here:
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As for changing font size and color, you can do it with html coding for each individual post or page:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/Or you could buy the Custom Design Upgrade and learn CSS to change fonts for your entire blog:
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@firstcoastcleaners
If you are expecting to find a theme that you can just click and change the font styles and/or color and/or size on throughout the whole blog as you can on a Blogger blog then that’s not possible on WordPress.com blogs.These are 3 ways to change fonts on WordPress.com blogs.
(1) Changing font families, colors and size in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page by coding into the HTML editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/editors/font-size-color/
(2) Changing font colors in text in posts or pages either post by post or page by page using the #4 icon (Select text color – change the text color) in Row 2 the Visual editor. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-2
(3) Changing all font families, colors and sizes throughout the whole blog by purchasing an annually renewable Custom Design upgrade and using Typekit Fonts with Staff support. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
Note: A few themes do provide for changing font color in the Blog Title and/or optional Tagline and/or links. But in the majority of themes here font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, post titles, page titles, categories and tags, widget headings, comments, and links cannot be done without CSS editing.
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WOW, thanks! I’m so embarrassed that I never even saw the HTML tab. All those references you guys supplied are perfect. I’ve copied them into my WordPress notes file so I can remember how to do it.
It’s so wonderful to have this forum with nice people willing to help!
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Be careful with fonts. If you edit them in the HTML editor paragraph by paragraph and you later change themes, the fonts stay the same. So if you hand-coded them to white, then switch to a theme with white background, all your text is invisible and you have to edit the entire blog paragraph by paragraph to change it.
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You are welcome.
Also note that if you are wanting to change the font size for reasons that your readers have difficulties with vision, you can add a note in a widget to let them know that their browsers can zoom in.
Usually found under the “View” menu—everything gets larger… -
@raincoaster:
That would be the reason to specify a background color as well as a text color in a div or p (aragraph)… -
True, but then you switch themes and your background colour clashes with the theme colours…it’s far better to learn CSS and get the upgrade so you don’t run into these issues.
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@firstcoastcleaners
You’re welcome and best wishes with your blogging.P.S. As Tess remarked above we can all increase or decrease font size on any site on the internet by using keyboard shortcuts.
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