this might be set in style.css of your theme; please use a tool such as Firefox’ add-on Firebug to investigate the formatting.
http://getfirebug.com/
Thanks, alchymyth, I have Firebug Lite but am not sure what to look for. I don’t see anything in the Stylesheet that looks like bold-italics formatting.
you haven’t named your theme nor posted a link to your site, so nobody here can make any suggestions.
some theme have a reset stylesheet or section;
add styles for bold and italics to style.css of your theme to set the styles.
however, this concerns general formatting and help with this is not within the scope of this WordPress forum.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/
My theme is Star Brite version 1.1 (It does have a reset stylesheet.)
Website is>>> http://voiceofbaltimore.org
So are you saying I would have to create a code for bold-italics?
Thanks again,
AL
in this file /wp-content/themes/star-brite/reset-fonts-grids-tabs.css
find em, and strong, and remove them
I don’t understand it, it looks similar to the code in the Stylesheet, only more detailed.
How will removing em and strong enable bold-italics?
em is the html tag for ’empasis’ or italic (there is also i but this is deprecated afaik)
strong is the html tag for ‘bold’ (there is also b but this is also deprecated)
this section in the ‘reset’ stylesheet sets the styles for these to ‘normal’:
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,em,strong,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;}
if you remove em,strong, from this section, you end up with:
address,caption,cite,code,dfn,th,var{font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;}
and italics and bold formatting should show on your site.
ps:
this basic knowledge of html and css is the prerequisit for any customisation of any web site – if you don’t have this knowledge, try to learn it by working through an online tutorial, for instance w3school.com
It is not within the scope of this WordPress forum to teach or help with this basic level of formatting problems.
Thanks, alchymyth, I’m rather new to WordPress and am just now learning to make some basic adjustments. I work with HTML code for my posts, in lieu of the visual editor, in order to learn more about the system. You and others have been very helpful in the Forum and have given me good advice, which I very much appreciate.
Re my problem: I have italics AND bold in my system– but it won’t display both together (i.e., if I use italics, for a specific word or phrase, the page won’t display bold for that entry, and vice-versa).
Btw, I removed “em,strong” as you suggested, but the page still won’t display bold-italics.
you might need to clear the browser cache – for instance by pressing ‘CTRL F5’ or by reloading the page – to get changes to the styles to show on your screen.
I have italics AND bold in my system
can you point to a phrase in a particular post so I can check this?
PS:
I just simulated italic text within a bold section in Firefox’ web developer add-on, and you are right – the italic is not bold;
however, removing the suggested code from the ‘reset’ stylesheet seems to work.
what stops you from trying?
I did try but it didn’t work. I’ll try again now…
It works! Not clearing the cache apparently was the culprit when I tried before.
Thank you so much for your help, you’ve really been great!
Can I ask another (unrelated) question regarding the print plugin “WP-Print”? (I asked the author of the plugin and he doesn’t know how to fix the problem):
On Voice of Baltimore’s main page (where the opening paragraphs of the five most recent stories appear in reverse chronological order), if you click the Print icon– without first selecting one of the stories– it defaults to the oldest story (at the bottom of the page) instead of the newest story (at the top).
I want it to default to the newest story, the most current one at the top.
The author said it had something to do with a “loop” but did not know how to fix it.
I’m wondering if you do? I would appreciate any suggestion/s you might have.
Thank you again so much,
AL
