why can't I get font types/sizes on my wordpress blog. it's all one size/type
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I cannot get different font types and sizes and underline on my wordpress blog. I can get them on an earlier blog I have but not on this later one. Why? Do you have to buy these in now?
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If you are into fiddling about with font size each and every post you make by using the Text editor (HTML editor) then you can change it in the body text in posts and pages.
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 Text ie. HTML editor. http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/formatting-text-pt-5/
(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/
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No. You can use the icons in the Visual posts/page editor to create blog, italics, etc. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/
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I have found ‘underline’ in kitchen sink. But I still cannot find font types and size. I know I can do the others you mention in the visual editor but not the ones I have specified
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To put matters simply, there is no button on the visual editor which states “font type” or “font size”, so you can alter the type and size of font. But you can get these by buying them in or by upgrading, etc??
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If you wish to use any different fonts, colors or sizes within posts and pages then you are back in full circle to using the Text (HTML editor)> See my first response above.
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Also note that you have not created a single post but instead you have created a whole whack of Pages that have no RSS Feeds and are not of interest to search engines. That is not the intended use of a custom menu.
Hi there,
Please read this first Post vs. Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/(1) There is only one page we can post to in any blog.
(2) The static pages http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ we bloggers create do not automatically update.Only the dynamic pages like Archives, Categories and Tags created by the software when we publish a post will update automatically update with new posts.
By default the front page of the blog is the Page that displays all posts in your blog. You can create a static front page and have your published post display on another page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ but doing that does not change what follows. We can create the appearance that we have posted to more than one page by creating a custom menu and adding the dynamic categories/tags pages to it http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/
This guide will walk you through how to create category pages for your blog, to display groupings of similar posts on pages other than your front page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/
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Fine. But if I want to edit a page, all I want is a button in visual editor marked “font size” or “font type” so I can highlight the document and press it and alter the size and type of font of the page. I don’t want to have to take the time to go into HTML editing, etc, etc. It’s very simple. There appears to be no such buttons and, as I am not highly literate in computer sciences, I can neither find nor make them for myself. This is why I mention upgrading or having to buy a higher version of the visual editor.
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For example, if I click on “font type” a drop down box would give me a list of fonts (Garamond, TNR, Arial, Gothic, etc) like it does in Word, Serif, etc. Or clicking on “font size” likewise gives me a list of sizes from, say, 8 to 24, etc.
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If you don’t have this on the standard toolbars, fair enough. If I have to buy it, fair enough. I will buy it or live without it. But just be honestly direct and state “the standard visual editor does not have “font type” or “font size” functions. You have to do without, purchase or upgrade”. Finis.
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I thought that was clearly expressed here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-cant-i-get-font-typessizes-on-my-wordpress-blog-its-all-one-sizetype?replies=11#post-1573329
Unless you are referring to changing fonts styles, sizes and or colors only in text within posts and pages one post or page at at time then you need to purchase an annually renewable custom design upgrade. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
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I have to side with shaunpmay on this. Using the visual editor, I can designate text to be bold, italic, and underlined. I can change the color of the text. No html required. But I can’t change the size of the font in visual editor.
I used to blog on TypePad and in their equivalent of visual editor, they called it “Rich Text” mode, I could easily change the font size with a drop down box, with choices from 8 pt to 36 pt. Each theme (or template) came with a default font, but within the Rich Text mode, there was a drop down box where I could choose up to 17 different font styles, either for the entire post or for sections within the post that I highlighted. It was fast, easy, and convenient. No html required.
Sure, TypePad wasn’t free, as WordPress.com is, but like shaunpmay said previously, I’d be willing to extra pay for those features on the Visual editor toolbar…or at least the type size feature. I like everything else about WordPress so much better than TypePad, but this is a deficiency.
And correct me if I’m wrong, but when you purchase the custom font upgrade, I know you can choose a typeface and a standard type size (i.e., larger or smaller that the standard for the custom font chosen), but does it also provide the ability to easily change the size of the font within the post, or even with the upgrade, would using the text editor and htlm still be required?
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No, if you purchase the upgrade, you change it in the CSS code. Using code OR the “Customizer” interface.
There is no upgrade here that gives you a font drop-down menu in the visual editor.
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Thanks to Timethief, doobster418 and raincoaster. I think that more or less resolves the question.
What’s next? I log in tomorrow and find to my surprise – as a late Christmas present from WordPress – two little ‘drop-down’ buttons discretely located on the visual editor of my bloggs. One is marked “font type” and the other “font size”.
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PS When I first started blogging with WordPress, I think – if my memory serves me well – that there were drop-down font type and font size functions in visual editor. Of course, I reserve the right to be wrong. It could be my ageing memory playing tricks on me.
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PPS Or, perhaps, my memory has become infected with the impish cerebral virus of ‘wishful thinking’
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