Font size

I am not sure if you can enlarge all fonts at once to 1.25 times their existing size but what you can do is install the Custom CSS and add this:

.entry-content {
font-size: 14px; // it will enlarge the content
}

.entry-title {
font-size: 28px; // it will enlarge the titles
}

You could do:

body {
font-size: 125%;
}

or

#content-wrapper {
font-size: 125%;
}

For headings, this is done from each one individually:

h1, h2, h3, etc.

Then for anything else, you can add custom sizing such as kaniamea mentioned.

For the other part of your post, it’s best not to code in a custom css directly into a theme. It’s better to use a plugin, or a child theme (if you plan to make other types of modifications, and which this theme does have a child theme you can install). But if it’s just css, then a CSS editor plugin is fine.

Thanks! I have installed the child theme now – however I’ve just spent the last two days searching for the right theme and I notice most new themes have a “custom css” box in the Theme Options section.

A lot of non-technical people are scared of child themes (I was for ages) – they sound too complicated. I’m used to them now, but it still seems unnecessarily fiddly to install a child theme or plugin to make two or three changes to the css.

The other method which is ideally great for editing and doing custom css is to use a CSS editor because you can use it for any other themes you switch to from time to time. It pretty much works in a similar way where you just enter in some css, no child theme needed. IF you just need some minor css editing, then a css editor plugin is best suited then and not the child theme (which is more suited for actual theme file modifications. I know many people have jetpack installed, which has a decent css editor feature to it.

Jetpack, ugh! I was a big fan for a while, until someone did some simple testing for me, and demonstrated how much it was slowing my site down – even though I had 90% of the options disabled! Jetpack isn’t really one plugin, it’s a suite of plugins bundled together. It has an annoying habit of auto-activating features, too.

However I must say, I didn’t know there were standalone CSS plugins so I’ll certainly think about using those in future.

And Encounter is a fantastic theme, BTW. As I say, I’ve spent two days ploughing through theme after theme until I found it. Still playing around with it and very impressed indeed.

Definitely there are options to css editing with different plugins. The trick is to try out a few to see what works best for your needs.

I made a note to write an article on my site about the different options one has when they need to do various levels of customization of a theme.

Thanks for the comment about Encounters too ??