Shop and product descriptions appearance

  • Resolved Fiona

    (@feesplacegooglemailcom)


    6 years ago

    I have a query about 1) the appearance of both the shop ‘top’/landing page and also 2) the products main page, the settings of which are accessed by going to:

    Products > Category > Edit Category

    In relation to the products main page, in the settings (as above), there is a Description box for you to write a little description of what the products are, etc.

    However, my issue with this is that once you’ve typed it up that appears to be it; there’s no option to add nice text or change the size of the text even. It’s pretty set at a standard setting, which is boring and not very attractive. How can I change this so I can have it set to look nice and maybe add some bold text, change the font, etc.? I have very limited developing experience so any kind of recommendations would have to be idiot’s guide, step-by-step style! Go easy on me!

    The other query is the same for the shop landing page, it’s the same: description box text looks really basic and boring.

    How and where do I look to change both? Is there a better way? I assume there is, or must be!

    PS If you click the link below to my website (shop page) you can see what I mean by it,it says, ‘Welcome to online shop’, etc. But the text is very basic and unattractive. I want to make a more inviting looking message. How??? ??

    • This topic was modified 6 years ago by Fiona.

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  • The WordPress text editor is called “TinyMCE” and, if you go to the www.ads-software.com plugins directory and search for that, you’ll find several plugins which add additional formatting options to the editor.

    Try this one to start with, but if it doesn’t meet your needs, try the others.
    https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

    Whatever you add to the text editor will appear on every text editor in your install, products, pages, posts etc.

    Thread Starter Fiona

    (@feesplacegooglemailcom)

    Superb! Will give it a whirl and report back ??

    Thread Starter Fiona

    (@feesplacegooglemailcom)

    The only problem is, when you edit the category it’s not the same as editing a page – so I can add the TinyMCE features but I don’t get to use them when I am trying to edit my category. Wish I could add a screenshot so you can see what I mean.
    Anyone know?

    Do you mean the category description? This should appear on the category page, usually below the category name but above the result count. Some themes may not show it. I can’t see a description in either of your categories.

    As you say, the description is plain text, so to style it you would need some custom css. In my theme the css would look like:

    .term-description {
  color: #f00;
  font-size: 20px;
}

    If the css doesn’t work for your theme, put up a category with a description.

    Custom css can be entered at:
    Dashboard > Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS

    Plugin Support AW a11n

    (@slash1andy)

    Automattic Happiness Engineer

    Hey there!

    It looks like lorro got you sorted out, so I am marking resolved.

    Have a great one!

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