Hi! I installed “Influence” as my WordPress theme and am now having issues with bold and italics not acting as they should. No bold so far and italics are buggy (at least one page is).
(my pages are private because I want the issues resolved before making them public… so I’m not sure how to show you the pages. If URLs are needed, I will entertain suggestions.)
1. On a post page, the italics is working, but the bold is not. (page source code (strong tags) are all there, just not working)
2. On a page that I made via the “Add page” option (my “about” page), all the text is in italics. Looking at the page source code, I do not see any ’em’ tags out of place, so I’m assuming that it’s a style.css issue.
I do not have a plug-in for CSS edits installed, but would gladly edit it manually if I knew which part of the code to edit.
Thanks in advance!
James <
Okay, I published the “about” page so I could share the link. http://wingsandrevelations.com/wp/about/
It should NOT be in all italics, but it is. Also the one *strong* sentence is not any different than the other sentences, though the tags look correct in the source code.
TIA for anyone that has a solution to offer.
Both solved! ( I think, unless there’s a better way? )
Bold is now working:
I Solved (or did a work around for) the bold issue by changing the font weight from ‘500’ to ‘700’ on this bit of code in the .css file.
article.entry .entry-content strong { color: #646360; font-weight: 500; }Then combing through the css further, I noticed the ‘italics’ assignments and went into ‘text’ mode in the page editor and found that ‘blockquote’ tags were surrounding the whole body of text. I removed them and viola! Bob’s your uncle!
Today is Thanksgiving Day and i now have one more thing to be grateful for. :D
I hope this helps someone else as well!
Hi James
Apologies for the delay here. Really glad to hear you found the way forward here. Yes, unfortunately, there was a weight stated for bold. This is fine if the font you’re using has that weight. Not all fonts have that particular weight which causes the problem.
Any changes made via Appearance > Editor will be lost the next time you run an update for Vantage. To resolve this problem please copy the selector you edited and paste it into a plugin like Simple Custom CSS or Jetpack Custom CSS.
Here is the selector you can insert:
/* Influence Bold Fix */ article.entry .entry-content strong { font-weight: bold; }Using the bold value as I have OR the 700 weight you did, both work.
Thank you Andrew! I like the more permanent solution!
I installed Jetpack and added the code to the custom CSS file. Tested it and all works well!
Problem solved!
Blessings,
James
Win. Glad you took that extra step. All the best!