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In reply to: Very simple question — changing font size
Found it- mailserver believing it spam… won’t happen again…
In reply to: Very simple question — changing font sizeI just posted that and then see you are there above me again, here in just the last little while, and I did NOT get an email notifying me of it… So something is goofy there… I havent even read your post yet, will do so now…
In reply to: Very simple question — changing font sizeHi Robin,
Adding the !important, I have placed the below into the theme’s child, and then just to see what would happen when that didn’t do anything, placed it at the bottom of the bbpress.css file, here- /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/templates/default/css/bbpress.css
Neither attempt made the change I am looking for, to increase the font size of all the forum text in general, which is presently about the same size as this text is here… I’ll tweak the number once something I try is effecting a change… I am always clearing all caches when I ever do any changes, just to confirm that…
bbpress-forums .bbp-topic-content p,
bbpress-forums .bbp-reply-content p {
font-size: 16px !important;
}I am going to keep looking and playing with it but wanted to report this now… I am accepting your offer of help. Some feedback is that in a lot of searching in the past I hadn’t come across the pages your links above sent me to, and they are helpful, though still with some vagueness and gaps that can leave on a bit floundering… I you want to hear more let me know…
In reply to: Very simple question — changing font sizeI’m back to the same quest, changing the forum’s font size(s), and in searching around rediscovered here… I’m pretty good about checking the “notify me of followup” boxes but didn’t get an email in this case, so this is a good bit later… I’m hoping your “followup” boxes are still checked and maybe you will see this… I’ll bookmark this thread and check back in…
And thank you, this IS community and I deeply appreciate all the effort everyone makes to help each other, and also for both of you reminding me of that… Because it is looking like it could be helpful to Robin to know a little what it is like (for some folks anyway) looking for answers like this, I’ll make an offering here, beyond just looking for my own solutions…
It could be that I am a bit typical of someone coming into this believing they can do it even though they haven’t done it before, and who is generally doing very well and truly enjoying the process, and all the new stuff I am learning… I have a very nice, unique website going now, with a lot in it. The forum is the only part left for me to tweak around with, refine it’s look and feel, so to speak, or in other words the stuff css does, as opposed to php for instance…
To answer Lyng and also in response to Robin, I am comfortable changing css via the theme child, as well as php changes with snippets via the snippets plugin, and have altered parts of some wp files, theme files & plugin files via the cPanel when snippets or child css wasn’t going to do it, in which case making local documented backups…
And, I am totally illiterate in terms of writing code and nearly illiterate reading, some bits of css being a slight exception. And my brain cells way too old for me to ever become fluent. Especially in that there are several different languages used for websites… I understand “cascading” though, and am getting some glimmers of the relationship between some of the languages, like it seems that css is telling php what to do once php gets some structure in there… I have a construction background so I tend to look at things that way, bits and pieces of this and that fitting together to make a whole…
So how I have gone about it is to search and obtain code from all you amazing literate folks, as well as by learning a bit to identify in the case of css what can be altered in existing code to change size, color, padding, location, etc., and add that to the child theme or elsewhere so the cascading effect takes place…
I can’t ever imaging at my age learning much about php, i.e., to actually change existing php code, but I can and have looked for and found some bits from people who seem to know what they are doing and who are referring to to something close enough to my own situation to try it, either as a snippet or some changes via cPanel, text, things like that..
People often offer code but don’t then say how to use it, place it, where it goes, as if all of us out here, if we are looking for code know that part… If that information could be more prevalent with the offered code it could be hugely helpful for this person and probably a lot of other folks… I’m reminded sometimes of being in a country whose language I don’t speak, and how sometimes local folks can kind of get impatient with that. And I also see in searching around how some folks seem to want simple solutions without any effort on their own part… And as you reminded me, this is community, so there you go… All sorts of us… 🙂 I’ve actually enjoyed some great personal growth these last few months with all of this…
I am hoping all this can be helpful… I’m now going to go off and explore where Robin has pointed, and maybe come back here with a report, likely not to be even nearly as long-winded as this… 🙂
Again, truly regret that I did not see your responses sooner, and hoping you get this…
John, aka crzyhrse
In reply to: Very simple question — changing font sizeOK, I have been at this off and on for days, trying to find how to merely, easily, simply change font sizes in bbpress…
I tried as best I could to do as directed here by Jared… It doesn’t work…
I concur with renai, the attitude of many moderator responses with brief, vague, inexplicable, information lacking answers, and the seeming total lack of any easily findable cohesive simple directions to do much of anything…
Come on- How much more basic and normal can it be, to want to change font sizes…??
