browser font overriding theme font

If you view source of your site, you’ll see that the theme is inserting a style tag and the end of the head. This is the suspect line:

body{font-family:'courier new',courier,monospace;font-size:75%;}

It needs to read:

body{font-family:"courier new",courier,monospace;font-size:75%;}

It appears WP or your theme is also using the HTML entity for the quote. That’s causing a CSS error making the font-family bug out thus be ignored.

This is happening in the themes functions.php file.

line: 664:

if ( get_option('barthelme_basefontfamily') == "" ) {
		$basefontfamily = 'arial,helvtica,sans-serif';
	} else {
		$basefontfamily = wp_specialchars( stripslashes( get_option('barthelme_basefontfamily') ) );
	};

the wp_specialchars is what is converting the character. It appears your server has ENT_QUOTES turned on.

try changing that line to read:

if ( get_option('barthelme_basefontfamily') == "" ) {
		$basefontfamily = 'arial,helvtica,sans-serif';
	} else {
		$basefontfamily = stripslashes( get_option('barthelme_basefontfamily') );
	};

thus removing the wp_specialchars.

hopefully that should fix things.

This is the css btw. Any ideas would be great.

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Hey! thanks for the input! Unfortunately it seems to have broken it, haha.

I removed the special characters lines you suggested and instantly got this error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘)’ in /homepages/24/d281236462/htdocs/www.fightthefools.com/wp-content/themes/barthelme/functions.php on line 667

So I copied and pasted the original functions.php back, and I’m still getting that message now.

I just use text edit (on a mac) to edit my HTML, so I can’t count down 667 lines to see where the issue is – any ideas? Yikes! Site is officially gone now and I’d hate to have to redo all the other customization I did so far…

Wait! Scratch that last post. ??

I downloaded an html editor (about time, I know) – and was able to correct it by ftping to the problem.

AND YOUR SOLUTION WORKED! Thanks soooo much. I would have never ever thought of special characters. Yay! I really appreciate the help!