Changing font sizes on your blog

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 4:37 am

The question came up about changing text size when I did the first part of the review on the upcoming WordPress 3.0. Here is what was in the comment.

I hope the new upgrade will allow for changing the body text size from a menu. Thanks for the update, looking forward to the upgrade.

You are going to be disappointed as text size is theme dependent. There are themes that have options like the Flexibility theme I use here where in the options panel I can change the size, font and color quite easily.

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If your theme created adds the functionality it is quite easy. Fill in the items and click update.

That being said it really is not hard to change these items in any theme. The fonts and sizes are defined in the stylesheet usually called something like style.css.

It is easy to edit from the dashboard if you have set your theme files to be writable. Go to appearance – editor to see all of your theme files. Open style.css.

Note – Before editing any theme files always make a backup of the original files. If you break something you can overwrite your new code with the original.

You will need to look through the stylesheet to find the section but you will find where the size is. This is from the new default theme and is well documented.

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In this case the font size is 12 pixels high and you could make it bigger or smaller. One note though, if you edit the font-size you will probably need to edit the line-height also.

As long as you have the original backup the worst that can happen is you need to upload the original to fix anything you break,

There are lots of easy thing like this that you can do to customize the look of your blog and Advanced WordPress is a good video tutorial to help you adjust the look of your blog.

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