Comments on: How to Make a WordPress Blog http://normansheppard.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog/ Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:46:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Norman Sheppard http://normansheppard.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-805 Norman Sheppard Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:16:58 +0000 http://normansheppard.com/?p=248#comment-805 Try this http://www.techdreams.org/blogging/fixing-wordpress-rss-issue-xml-parsing-error-xml-or-text-declaration-not-at-start-of-entity/2457-20090504 Try this
http://www.techdreams.org/blogging/fixing-wordpress-rss-issue-xml-parsing-error-xml-or-text-declaration-not-at-start-of-entity/2457-20090504

]]> By: Najee Khan http://normansheppard.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-803 Najee Khan Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:55:28 +0000 http://normansheppard.com/?p=248#comment-803 On my blog, when you click on the RSS icon, (top right), I get the following error message" ------------ I read somewhere that if I remove blank lines from the top and bottom of PHP files, the error should go away. I downloaded a plug-in to do that but the problem is still there. Any ideas? Thanks. On my blog, when you click on the RSS icon, (top right), I get the following error message”
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I read somewhere that if I remove blank lines from the top and bottom of PHP files, the error should go away. I downloaded a plug-in to do that but the problem is still there.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

]]> By: Norman Sheppard http://normansheppard.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Norman Sheppard Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:11:55 +0000 http://normansheppard.com/?p=248#comment-749 Good question, probably worth an entire post but, here's a quick answer... look for the template file named style.css. This file has a lot of stuff and depending on what theme you are using font definitions could be in many different places. Usually, a global font-family and font-size is defined in the body style which will most likely be at the top of the stylesheet... body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;} This is very simplified . Note, there is a short-form for font styles... body { font: 12px/14px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } 12px is the size, 14px is the line-height, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif are the font-family in order of degradation, if the users computer doesn't have Arial use Helvetica, if there's no Helvetica, use whatever sans-serif is available. ALSO, font sizes can be defined in several ways, px, em, pt, and %. For header, sidebar, and footer font definitions you will most likely have to look through the code of your template files to figure out what styles have been applied to these elements. For example, you might see <* div id="header" >blablabla<* / div >, to change the font of blablabla you will now look in your stylesheet for #header { font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } This is really much too big a subject for a comments section, I'll do a post on this in the near future. In the meantime you could go here http://www.w3schools.com/css/ for a pretty good tutorial on CSS basics. Good question, probably worth an entire post but, here’s a quick answer… look for the template file named style.css. This file has a lot of stuff and depending on what theme you are using font definitions could be in many different places. Usually, a global font-family and font-size is defined in the body style which will most likely be at the top of the stylesheet… body { font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px;} This is very simplified . Note, there is a short-form for font styles… body { font: 12px/14px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif } 12px is the size, 14px is the line-height, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif are the font-family in order of degradation, if the users computer doesn’t have Arial use Helvetica, if there’s no Helvetica, use whatever sans-serif is available. ALSO, font sizes can be defined in several ways, px, em, pt, and %.

For header, sidebar, and footer font definitions you will most likely have to look through the code of your template files to figure out what styles have been applied to these elements. For example, you might see < * div id="header" >blablabla< * / div >, to change the font of blablabla you will now look in your stylesheet for #header { font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }

This is really much too big a subject for a comments section, I’ll do a post on this in the near future. In the meantime you could go here http://www.w3schools.com/css/ for a pretty good tutorial on CSS basics.

]]> By: Najee Khan http://normansheppard.com/how-to-make-a-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-748 Najee Khan Sun, 01 Nov 2009 14:24:09 +0000 http://normansheppard.com/?p=248#comment-748 How do you change the font style and size in WordPress? How do you change the font style and size in WordPress?

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