Hi I hope someone can help me. My problem is trying to make changes to my posts in wordpress. I cannot seem to figure out how to change the font size or style. I have written in word and pasted to "paste from word" and "paste as text" icon. Either way post gets garbled and takes hours to try and fix and never look right. I have also tried pasting fron notepad with no success. Sure I am missing something but don't know what. Want my posts to look as good as possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks that is better. Still makes all fonts and font styles the same. Is there a way to change fonts and font styles after pasting. Tried changing in visual editor "formats" but that really does some strangr things to post. Any suggestions?
Look at your post in the plain code editor and make sure that no residual code, other than the text is present. If you have straight text, your font mods and colors should work fine.
In your post editor within Wordpress you can switch between "Visual" and "HTML"....(top right of the post box, above the tool bar). Toggle it to HTML and make sure that there is no residual code formatting the text. When you use MS Word and similar programs, you have to strip all of the formatting out before you paste or it will totally mess up your post.
It strips out the font size, font style, spacing. How do you add those things back in without messing it up ?
You can't use MS Word to format your article and then paste it into Wordpress, it won't work. You have to use the text editor in Wordpress to format your text..you can still set size and color, bold, italics, blockquotes, etc. Setting font style is a waste of time since not everybody, if anybody will see it. People can only see the fonts that are installed within their browser. It's best just to use the default fonts like Arial, Tahoma, Georgia, Times, Etc. because no matter what style font you use, that is what they will see.
Thanks, glad you cleared that up. I still can't figure out how to change the font size. Tried using the different settings in format. But it seems to have a mind of its own. Is format where I can change text size. And if it is, do you have any tips on using it? Is there some instructions where I can learn how to us it ?
The drop down menu on the bottom left of the text editor toolbar that say's "Paragraph", that drops down for sizing and format options.
Is there a trick to using that. I tried just changing the text size on one sentence and the whole paragraph above that changed as well. Used "heading 2" Everthing below stayed the same. When you preview the post, the background turn black. Very frustrated. But hopeful.
Sometimes it's touchy, but you can clean it up in the HTML editor. I noticed that you can't change just some text in a line, it will change the whole line. For instance you can't have the first 3 words <H2> and the rest of the line normal...it won't do that. It will change everything highlighted like a paragraph, or the whole line.
OK looks much better. Changed code in HTML . But still when previewing post the background is black where the text was change with H2 heading.
that depends on the style css file.. pls check ur css file for the configuration of H2... If you know little bit of PHP and CSS its a bit easier to maintain any blog.