is there any way to change font size in wordpress?

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I am having the hardest time trying to figure this out. Ive downloaded about 3 plugins to no avail.

How can i alter font sizes and style in wordpress in the same paragraph? When i copy paste from word it gets all messed up and there is no way within wordpress to actually change the font like you can in word.

is there a solution?
#change #font #size #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lockwood
    Uh, Wordpress has a WYSIWYG editor, much like Word. You can easily change fonts and so on.

    I would not paste from Word, because that brings in a lot of junk. Copy from Word into Notepad to get rid of that, then from Notepad into Wordpress and then add the formatting.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
      Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood View Post

      Uh, Wordpress has a WYSIWYG editor, much like Word. You can easily change fonts and so on.

      I would not paste from Word, because that brings in a lot of junk. Copy from Word into Notepad to get rid of that, then from Notepad into Wordpress and then add the formatting.
      where is the wysiwyg editor? is it the "paste from word" button? That doesnt change font size.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ken Strong
        Originally Posted by Jakehyten View Post

        where is the wysiwyg editor?
        I was wondering that, too -- I don't see it.

        If you switch to the HTML view you do have a few options, like Bold, Italic, etc. but no font options. You can hand-code the HTML and that works, but that's a lot of extra trouble to go to.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Lockwood
        Originally Posted by Jakehyten View Post

        where is the wysiwyg editor? is it the "paste from word" button? That doesnt change font size.
        See all the icons right above the box where you enter a post? Make sure you are on the Visual tab, not the Code one.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
          Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood View Post

          See all the icons right above the box where you enter a post? Make sure you are on the Visual tab, not the Code one.
          yeah but there is no icon to change the txt size. I have the newest version. My problem is i am creating a sales letter type homepage. I want to have headings then subheadings then on top of that the default font is at like 12 and its too small. I want to go up a size. I see no button to change that. Where i could just highlight some txt and change the size? im not seeing it. I do see those buttons. Nothing for size though
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          • Profile picture of the author Michael D
            Originally Posted by Jakehyten View Post

            yeah but there is no icon to change the txt size. I have the newest version. My problem is i am creating a sales letter type homepage. I want to have headings then subheadings then on top of that the default font is at like 12 and its too small. I want to go up a size. I see no button to change that. Where i could just highlight some txt and change the size? im not seeing it. I do see those buttons. Nothing for size though

            You have to change the dropdown where it says "paragraph" to H1-H6. H1 is the largest.
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            • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
              Originally Posted by Michael D View Post

              You have to change the dropdown where it says "paragraph" to H1-H6. H1 is the largest.
              so if i just want regular default plain ole txt to be bigger i change it to a heading? that doesnt seem right.
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael D
    There is an "paste from Word" in the Wordpress editor you could try. But, like Chris said Word brings a lot of crap usually. If you do switch to HTML code and make sure their isn't a bunch of extra html in there you don't need. I don't much like using the Wordpress WYSIWYG because it is very buggy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ron Douglas
    I believe that you can also change the stylesheet to adjust the default font size.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Lockwood
    What's wrong with that? Do you want bigger text or not?

    You can always switch to the Code tab and enter the font tags directly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
      Originally Posted by Chris Lockwood View Post

      What's wrong with that? Do you want bigger text or not?

      You can always switch to the Code tab and enter the font tags directly.
      well if i highlight txt and try to make it bigger by using headings they bold everything out. I guess i can have the whole page bold. yeah i guess ill have to just go into the html and change everyhting by hand.
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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Go to Users in your admin, click on your user name.
        You will see a check box that says Visual Editor
        That will give you WP's version of a wysiwyg editor.
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        • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
          Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

          Go to Users in your admin, click on your user name.
          You will see a check box that says Visual Editor
          That will give you WP's version of a wysiwyg editor.
          yeah i have that checked. Am i really missing something here. Does everyone have an editor where they can just highlight an area of txt and change the font size? Cause there is NOTHING like that within my wysiwyg. I can change bold and underline but not the SIZE
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael D
    No, sorry I didn't read your post right. If you want to change the default text size for good you need to edit your CSS file. You can also use pretty much any html tags inside the Wordpress HTML editor like:

    Code:
    <font size="5">Here is a size 5 font</font>
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael D
    You can try an advanced editor plugin like this one:
    WordPress › TinyMCE Advanced WordPress Plugins

    But, I am not sure how great these work. I would read the reviews first.
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  • Profile picture of the author e-mail2u
    I use deansFCKeditor for wordpress works wonders, and is the best plug in i use on my wordpress blog.

    with it you can change the font style,size and color plus more...

    Here is a video a i made to show one of the uses i use this for.


    A quick search on wordpress plugins and you should easily be able to find it for downloading.

    regards,
    Geoff
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    • Profile picture of the author Jakehyten
      THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! This is SOOOO much easier. does everyone know about this!?


      Originally Posted by e-mail2u View Post

      I use deansFCKeditor for wordpress works wonders, and is the best plug in i use on my wordpress blog.

      with it you can change the font style,size and color plus more...

      Here is a video a i made to show one of the uses i use this for.

      YouTube - a must have Wp-Plugin

      A quick search on wordpress plugins and you should easily be able to find it for downloading.

      regards,
      Geoff
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