Eve Batey

This is great advice, for my next child. Thanks for your patient explanation — as a longtime Movable Type user, entering this WordPress world has been a huge learning experience. I really appreciate all your help getting me where I need to be!

I’m really stumped, here. Looking at line 161 in the source for the page this post is on shows me

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I’ve done a complete search of my (active, I checked) child theme’s style sheet, and the only blockquote option I appear to have is

blockquote {
	margin: 0 1.5em;
	font-family: 'times', serif;
	font-size: 10.5px;
	font-size: 3.2rem;
	line-height: 1.8;

I honestly cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Thanks for giving it a shot, Christine!

Post is here:

https://thewinnower.com/christine-b-quote/

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Thank you for checking this out!

Hi, Christine! Unfortunately, since I can’t successfully alter the blockquote font from Reenie Beanie, I’ve had to forgo use of block quotes on the site — it’s just not practical for our purposes.

If you can tell me how to easily change this within the theme, however, I can start using blockquotes, which would be fantastic!

Gosh, I’m so sorry, but I don’t understand what you’re asking! Can you please elaborate?

OK, I pulled the embedded tweets and replaced them with jpgs. Then I did a test post with a blockquote. No change. I am sorry to say that that appears not to have been the issue!

Only one way to find out — I’ll pull all the embedded tweets from the site and see if that resolves it. I’ll keep you posted!

Sure. But what I’m saying is that the css file you’re referring to above is the result of an embedded tweet in a single blog post. It’s not an element of the Mon Cahier theme, nor has it been added as a plug-in.

Do you believe that a CSS file that’s being called by an embedded tweet is responsible for my inability to change this blockquote font? Or could there be another reason for this?

I believe you’re seeing the result of an embedded tweet. If you’re looking at the homepage, the tweet is embedded in the third visible post, headed “Oakland Trib Tells Critics To Get Over It.”

More on embedded tweets is here.

It’s not a plug-in, nor is it part of the stylesheet. So I’m not sure if that could be the culprit?

Nope.

Andrew, are you finding that CSS you quoted in the stylesheet? I’ve scanned it from top to bottom and am not seeing that language.

As always, thank you so much for your help on this.

Andrew! You inspired me to keep trying with that section of the CSS, and I think I worked the padding challenges I was having out. Thanks again for your help, I owe you one.

Thanks for responding, Andrew! As the CSS appears now, it reads

#secondary ul {
margin:0px;
}
#secondary ul li {
list-style:none;
padding:4px 0 4px 10px;
margin:0;
}
#secondary ul ul li {
padding-left:15px;

I’d tried messing with the padding there before I posted my question, which if I’d been smart I would have mentioned. But I didn’t see any changes in appearance. Perhaps I fiddled with the wrong line? I tried reducing every relevant number, though, to no avail.