Frank in Creedmoor

OK, thanks Stephen for that; I was confused. Not sure if you showed me the existing code or some new suggested code but I’m new to this, not a code person but learning fast in the sense that I’m learning CSS theory and when I go in to study the code for “visited” versus “hover” etc that helps me greatly to find what I’ll need to learn.

So thanks again stephen. I assume if I delete all cookies, etc. The gray will revert to blue.

Let me confirm all of this and then I will mark as resolved.

Thanks but when you look elsewhere below on that home page you see blue text as the link and black text as the regular text. ?????????? So I don’t know why it has changed in the problem section.

OK, thanks I’ll play with what you said. Trying using the P as a selector in the plugin.

Before I read this last comment of yours I did open my website in “public view” and use my Chrome Browser and Inspect Element (IE) and played with that. When I selected any paragraph in my page I got a P…P in the IE area which indicated another style sheet which was a live link and was being used–an external one or the “extra one I mentioned above.” (don’t know what you call those, external? or whatever). When I clicked on that style sheet and looked at the very top, I saw the RESET area. When I entered font-weight:normal; there all, and I mean all, text went normal, what I had bolded in the editor and what was bolded in the style sheet such page name/website header, etc.

So I’ll try one of both of your suggestions. And I will get a little more into reading about CSS so I can at least do a few simple things; I’ve got to create a child theme with my next website; the more I know the better. Sorry I’m rambling.

thanks again

Thanks much djstigers:

I appreciate your thoughts very much. I’m relatively new to this and not strong code. After having “played” with several small sites for practice, I’m about to start a new serious website about global climate change.

So maybe you can do me a favor and answer this question. I’d still like to be able to change the text to bold (or perhaps other simple types of text style changes) in my twenty-twelve theme. We’ve been talking about doing that in “body” but I cannot find such an area in the code of twenty-twelve. But it has to be doable. If you are a code person and could quickly find that, could you please look and indicate your best guess?

I did try the plugin Simple Custom CSS and it worked but it changed all text to bold including the top menu text. I guess I used “body” as the selector for the CSS rule and that’s why it bolded everything. I had forgotten that “body” means essentially everything I guess. I know a little about CSS (have several books and use them for ref) and I know one can create classes to limit bolding to specific area such as paragraphs in main areas, whatever that means or special paragraphs by creating the class and the related style rule but I don’t think WordPress lets me do that in the editor and it would get too complicated for me.

So if you or anyone looking at this could please see if you can look at the twenty-twelve theme style sheet and give me your thoughts as to where to put a style rule for simple bold that would limit the bolding to just paragraphs in the main body (if that’s the right term).

Hope I’m making myself clear; thanks very much for any help.

I simply went back into the software and my change code was still there. I just removed it, updated there, and now the change is gone.

That simple I hope. I’m using WP4.3

So it seems effective; I’m just ignorant and new and do not understand how to write the code. Apparently I should use some other selector; not “body.” Maybe just “font?”

Any suggestions? Why I can’t do this in the style sheet myself is either entirely my ignorance — most likely –or WP is really not very useful to non code experts.

Yes, I have the same question. I downloaded and used it to change the font to bold in the body:

body{font-weight: bold;}

and it did it but in my ignorance did not realize that body meant the top menu also so now that is not cool in bold.

Where did it put the CSS?????????????????

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Thanks for all your thoughts; the one on not all bold is worth considering. And if you can’t answer this question, I’ll consider the plug in suggestion.

But:Can you tell me where I could actually change it in the style.css file? Nothing yet works such as under “basic structure” or “reset” or WHERE???????

Now I’m really confused. I’ve never made changes to a style sheet and not sure if I even used the correct sheet.

I see two sheets (actually four that are the “right to left” ones but I guess we can neglect those).

The two sheet remaining are style.css and editor-style.css. Which one of those do I use. One is full of “notes” and the other isn’t. I made my change, adding font-weight in the editor-style.css.

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Perhaps it is widget plugin such as CUSTOM STOCK WIDGET. That plugin implies I can put a widget anywhere. I’m new to this and do not know if I can use a widget for anything I want (the text I want to use as links) nor do I know if I should be able to put text links into a widget, where the anchor which comes up will appear?

So If anyone knows the answers that would be great.

I’m probably misinterpreting the instructions in my WP “learning” books and the instructions on this support site. I can go to my twentytwelve theme dashboard and go to the “themes” section under “APPEARANCE.” When I go into that themes section (now I see its called the themes management section). It gives me the opportunity to download other themes for viewing which I have already done for general reasons.

But now I see I can select the “Add new theme” in that section and have the choice of adding my own file. So I assume I just follow instructions from my books and the WP child theme topic and create my own style.css file in plain text and upload it to this location? My book on creating a child theme also state I just need to use a line of code such as: @import url”…/twentytwelve/style.css”);

But I think I’ve seen that this last line of code is incorrect or poor. Please advise. thanks I’m trying to learn fast but this might help others also.

OK, my code in previous post is now is functional. Not sure if I just did not understand the custom code section and my have unchecked the box which “turns on” the code or what happened. But I was new to it and perhaps have an understanding now. Not a code person but with several books getting up to speed on some basics. I suspect that if want the heading text to also be 14px size I just enter th in selector.

This is a great table plugin and I shall contribute now that I’m seeing what it can do.

Not a code person but just trying to use your CSS styling suggestion for changing all table font sizes and to have them bold:

This is what I entered in the custom code section:

.tablepress tbody td {
	font-weight: bold;
	font-size: 14px;
}

Where am I wrong? I saved. Does is only control new tables?
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Ok thanks for the note regarding the tinymce plugins; I’ll look into those.

Of course one should know some basic HTML and CSS just for convenience and quick fixes but the tinymce plugin looks great for my current interests.

thanks again; I’ll study your thoughts above and should be able to do the “same page” links easily (with a little practice.)

Happy holidays/you will no doubt be hearing from me again!

Yes, I have seen your second correction immediately above.

So thanks much for this discussion. Several years ago I spend some months going through the MS Expression Web 2 and of course had to learn a little basic HTML. So I’m dangerous when it comes to that but obviously I will have to do some reviewing.

Speaking of MS Expression Web 2, (which I’ve abandoned as too complicated), Is it true that when I switch to HTML in WP that it does not go to the spot in the document where I had my cursor in the “visual” screen. If I’m correct, that is rather annoying.

See my page at: https://www.oxfordhumanists.org/?page_id=538

Now that I’ve been thinking about this it would seem that because I only will probably have 4 of these links in the page it might be better to use the simple HTML that I have set up now as I “experiment” with this. You will see I have one link set up now to play with and that is “Section Two. It works fine now with this HTML:

<a name=”section_two”></a> as the anchor entered down in the body

<a href=”#section_two”>Section Two: Experimental Science; Methods and Thought Process </a> entered at the index item at the top

(I realized the terms “anchor” is confused in the literature so I did the location to help with that)

If I take your suggestion, we are dealing with CSS protocol: that is, by assigning an ID to the “anchor.” That is designed, is it not, for use in the Style Sheet and as I said, it is probably not necessary to bother putting that into the style sheet to indicate style for something I’m only going to use very rarely. Also,if I use the css protocol system you suggest, then the link needs to jump back into the internet to my page and then down the page. The way I have it set up now it jumps immediately down the page in a split second. Not that the time is important but it just seems to be simpler to use my set up.

So is my technique with the simple HTML anchor and link considered improper in terms of the CSS world and if I review the page in question it through the W3 Schools is it going to tell me it’s an error?