Hi Elodie, it sounds like you want to make a number of typographical changes with this:
– reduce spaces between lines inside a post (in a text)
– make letters smaller (titles and texts)
– change the font of titles and texts inside
Learning some CSS will help you make those kinds of changes, as will learning how to target your site’s CSS.
Here are some good resources to get started:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/07/25/css-selectors/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/css-intro/
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/css-matched-rule-pane/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/how-to-find-your-themes-css/
The above are from WordPress.com, but the principles are the same for a self-hosted site.
If CSS is new to you, I recommend this CSS Tutorial from HTML Dog:
https://htmldog.com/guides/css/
In particular, check out this page:
https://htmldog.com/guides/css/beginner/text/
Once you’re ready to start tweaking your site’s CSS, here’s an important heads-up: don’t edit the theme files directly, otherwise your changes will be overwritten whenever the theme is updated.
An easy way to add custom CSS is to install the Jetpack plugin and activate the Custom CSS module. You’ll then add your custom CSS in the new stylesheet editor that’ll appear in your dashboard, under Appearance > Edit CSS.
As alternatives, you could either install a standalone custom CSS plugin, or create a child theme.
To help get you started:
– reduce spaces between lines inside a post (in a text)
The property you’re looking for is called line-height:
https://htmldog.com/reference/cssproperties/line-height/
If you right-click a sample post on your site you’ll see that it’s in a div that has the class entry-content, which means you can target it like this:
.entry-content {
line-height: 1.3;
}
Tweak the exact number as you like.
Give the rest of your changes a shot after taking a look at the above, and let me know how it goes.
– put the slideshow on the head of the blog
You’ll need to activate the Jetpack plugin to use Featured Content for Pictorico’s slider. Here are the exact steps as I outlined for someone else:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/featured-content-slider-3
