I’ve tried using a google webfonts tutorial, but they seem to function a little differently, also I tried using a generator, but it says the font file has been “blacklisted”. I’m new to the lingo, so please pardon.
Andrew Nevins
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What file format does this webfont that you’ve bought come in?
it comes in a zip file, then eot, ttf, woff, and woff2
Andrew Nevins
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Okay, sounds like you have the correct formats already. Which theme are you trying to embed these into?
The arcade theme, really just the site title (where it says arcade)
Andrew Nevins
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Do you have a Child Theme going?
Child theme? it just says Arcade Basic
and I’m going through GoDaddy
Andrew Nevins
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I see.
To manage this implementation you will have to create something called a Child Theme; which is just a way to modify this Arcade Basic theme.
A few things you need to do that will be covered in the Child Theme creation:
- Put the fonts online, on your website. So you need to put those font files somewhere safe
- Load the font(s) into the Webpages
- Write a little bit of CSS to style the titles with those loaded fonts
This will require FTP access (access to your website’s files and folders).
Thank you, Andrew, and apologies for my ignorance, but how do I go about putting my fonts online? Would I add them to my media library?
Andrew Nevins
(@anevins)
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The first step would be to create a Child Theme through the techniques outlined here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
You only really need to look at Step 2
Awesome! I’m following the directions, but I’m on a public computer, how do I download something like filezilla without downloading to my desktop?
Andrew Nevins
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WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Do your hosting providers have a tool in your hosting service Control Panel (not WordPress dashboard) that allows you to access your website’s files? That avoids downloading software.
It has an editor section where I can edit the stylesheet
Andrew Nevins
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WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
Hmm not too sure if that will suffice, you need to be able to create new files and upload them, and if necessary download them again. Your public computer probably has the software to make them (notepad) but I don’t think it can upload them.
There are plugins that create the Child Theme for you, but that doesn’t get away from the issue of you needing to create a functions.php file and upload your plugins into your Child Theme folder.
Could you return to this at another date when you have a personal computer available? If not then it may be easier to hire someone to do this for you; http://jobs.wordpress.net
