Help with Widget Options

  • Resolved kwsapphire

    (@kwsapphire)


    1 year, 3 months ago

    Two questions about the widget:

    1. The “Styles” section for this widget doesn’t appear to do anything. I’ve tried using the “body font” and “font smaller” options but neither makes the quote text smaller. Is there a way to force the widget to display all quotes with a smaller font size?

    2. Is it possible to remove the extra space between the title and the quote, or the extra space above the quote when no title is used? I have the Quotes Llama widget displayed below an image, and there’s quite a bit of space above the title, and then an ENORMOUS amount of space between the title and the quote. I’d like to reduce either of these if possible, but especially the huge space between the title and the quote.

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  • Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    1 year, 3 months ago

    Hi kwsapphire,

    The styles might be something theme related or another plugin. There is no styles settings in the plugin widget to format size or bold. Can you share your theme, perhaps its a feature of that, I’m not sure. Blocks vs Legacy is a learning curve for sure.

    I’ll look into reducing the spacing and getting it implemented. CSS is not my main language.. the plugin could definitely use a CSS expert 😉

    I’ll let you know.

    Edit: I find that I do add a spacing of 20px. between the title and the quote… that will be removed in the next update.

    It seems that depending on the theme it will affect the formatting. The title has before and after title styling applied, depending on what is set in your themes functions.php. If you search for “before_title” in your themes functions.php it may find the register_sidebar function.

    'before_title' => and 'after_title' => are what will be included around the title itself. Hopefully that makes sense as it should give you much more control over formatting that.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by oooorgle.
    Thread Starter kwsapphire

    (@kwsapphire)

    1 year, 3 months ago

    Thank you, I will poke around and look for that. The parent theme I’m using is Twenty Eighteen. The styles settings do appear for all widgets, I guess they just don’t always do anything.

    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    After installing the Twenty18 theme – it is most certainly a feature of the theme, but only for Legacy Widgets… As well, it seems to work fine for me. For instance, when I select Lowercase or Uppercase it does just that for the entire quote. However not all seem to work. Selecting Semi-White does not work while Swap-Colors does.

    My guess is that if the CSS (plugin) doesn’t contain the classes it’s searching for then it fails on those ones. So I would expect different results depending on which widget and its properties.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by oooorgle.
    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    As for the font sizing request – you can add some simple css to control that. But, you don’t want to ever edit theme or plugin files unless you never plan to update them. They are overwritten when updating so keep that in mind with the functions.php edits if you make any. I don’t think Twenty18 is ever getting an update so…

    Anyways, if you navigate to your dashboard->Appearance->Customize->Additional CSS

    You can add CSS to your site without editing the plugin files to accomplish this. This one applies to the widget, if you need other quote sections you can use the inspect tool to find the class names… for example in the Firefox browser I can right click->inspect on what part of the page I want information.

    Copy this and it should allow you to set size in px.

    .quotes-llama-widget-random {font-size: 12px;}

    Hope this helps.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by oooorgle.
    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by oooorgle.
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    Thread Starter kwsapphire

    (@kwsapphire)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    Thank you for the custom CSS for the font size, it worked like a charm! I put it in my additional CSS section, so it won’t get over-written with updates. I will just wait for your update rather than fiddle with the space between the title and the quote. Thanks again for your help!

    Plugin Author oooorgle

    (@oooorgle)

    1 year, 2 months ago

    2.0.6 Committed… removed the 20px from between the title and quote.

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