Hey @tunerfish – not a dumb question at all 🙂
For older themes like TwentyTwentySixteen – adding custom CSS is going to be the best way to achieve this kind of thing.
Doing so for headings can be done pretty generally with CSS code like:
h1 {
font-size: 32px;
}
h2 {
font-size: 24px;
}
If there are specific elements you wanted to make changes to – that may require some more specific code. Can you tell me a little more of what you had in mind?
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Adding CSS like that is possible in the ‘Additional CSS’ section of the Customizer (Appearance > Customizer).
https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/css/#custom-css-in-wordpress
Ah — so maybe I should switch to a newer easier to use theme?
Another helpful person had me add this in the custom CSS:
/* Post title size */
.entry-title {
font-size: 1.5rem;font-family: times new roman; font-weight: 500;
…but I later realized that there are instances of large bold fonts throughout the theme – “leave comment”, “next post”, etc. I just tried defining the h1 etc. in the custom CSS, but that didn’t change anything. So is there a newer theme where one can universally adjust these fonts?
Thanks for your help!
Hi @tunerfish
Another helpful person had me add this in the custom CSS:
/* Post title size */
.entry-title {
font-size: 1.5rem;font-family: times new roman; font-weight: 500;
…but I later realized that there are instances of large bold fonts throughout the theme – “leave comment”, “next post”, etc. I just tried defining the h1 etc. in the custom CSS, but that didn’t change anything.
When it comes to using CSS to make the font changes – it’s definitely possible you’d need to do that specifically for different areas of text.
So is there a newer theme where one can universally adjust these fonts?
There sure are. In the newer themes – you can take advantage of the Site Editor to set styles visually for elements in your site.
Styles overview
I’d recommend checking out TwentyTwentyThree as a starting point.
https://en-au.wordpress.org/themes/twentytwentythree/
And then this page will give you some guidance on getting started with the Site Editor to start customizing the site and styles.
Site Editor
Thanks for the tip. It looks like 23 is potentially easier to use, but the default settings mangled the site pretty well. Learning curves everywhere!
Hey @tunerfish
Thanks for the tip. It looks like 23 is potentially easier to use, but the default settings mangled the site pretty well. Learning curves everywhere!
I totally understand what you mean. There’s definitely a bit of a learning curve – but it’s well worth it.
In terms of the things that are looking mangled – please feel free to post over in the forums for TwentyTwentyThree – I’m sure folks would be willing to help out there.
https://wordpress.org/support/theme/twentytwentythree/?view=all
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