Title: Bold text
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Bold text

 *  [milesb1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/milesb1/)
 * (@milesb1)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/)
 * In my posts I have certain words typed in bold, however, when viewing my site
   the words do not appear in bold.
 * The HTML is correct but the words don’t appear as they should.
 * Can anyone help?

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723884)
 * does the ‘bold’ appear properly when viewing the single post?
 * then it possibly a case of ‘the_excerpt()’ vs ‘the_content()’ in the template
   responsible to show the posts (index.php ?)
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt)
 * or a case of a over-active reset style in style.css of your theme (?)
 * purely guessing without seeing your site live to illustrate the problem.
 *  [Phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/owendevelopment/)
 * (@owendevelopment)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723886)
 * Try adding this to the bottom of your style.css:
 *     ```
       strong {
       font-weight: bold !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * Or… If you use Firefox, use the firebug plugin to highlight why bold does nothing.
 *  Thread Starter [milesb1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/milesb1/)
 * (@milesb1)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723894)
 * I don’t have the excerpt when creating posts. alchymyth, what do you mean by 
   the over-active reset style?
 * Phil, I tried your idea but it didn’t work.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723903)
 * the main point of my reply is actually ‘without seeing your site live’ nobody
   can really help; there is just not enough information to work with.
 * post a link to your site to get more suggestions.
 *  Thread Starter [milesb1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/milesb1/)
 * (@milesb1)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723908)
 * Ok, here’s the link to my site –
 * href=”[http://www.reducethighsinformation.com”&gt](http://www.reducethighsinformation.com”&gt);
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723914)
 * right at the start of style.css is this section beginning with:
 * `/* Reset`
 * this also sets ‘strong’ to show normal font weight;
 * follow the suggestion by [@phil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phil/) and
   add the suggested code to style.css of your theme.
 * or remove `strong,` from the list of the reset styles.
 *  Thread Starter [milesb1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/milesb1/)
 * (@milesb1)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723922)
 * I’ve deleted ‘strong’ from the Reset section and added Phil’s suggestion but 
   it still hasn’t worked.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [milesb1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/milesb1/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bold-text/#post-2723922)
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