Text size is too small (using quintus theme)

  • I moved my blog to www.remarpro.com a few months ago and my daughter set it up using the Quintus theme. Now, after several posts, the text in the main body of the post has come out very small, and we can’t figure out how to change it. She’s been through the CSS, but doesn’t know enough to find out what is wrong. (And I don’t know CSS at all.)

    I’m not certain, but I think I have previously posted since updating to 3.6 and text on previous posts remains the same size it always was.
    My blog is: https://inquiringparent.com/

    I’ll be very grateful to anyone who can tell us how to fix this problem.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Whereabouts on that page is the small text?

    Thread Starter Yvonne S

    (@yvonne-s)

    It’s all of the blog post – the main body of the post.

    Thread Starter Yvonne S

    (@yvonne-s)

    Actually, while we were trying to change things I made it private and thought I’d updated that. I have republished it now, and all my posts have now got the same very small font size.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    It looks like some CSS has been copied from Microsoft Word, which is causing some formatting issues. Has this been the case? Or maybe it was the text itself copied from Word?

    Thread Starter Yvonne S

    (@yvonne-s)

    I have written some posts in Word in the past. Although I mainly wrote this post in the WordPress post editor, I did add some text from Word.

    I know nothing about CSS, so rely on my daughter – who is self-taught and still learning.

    Thanks for your help so far, and can you tell me what we can do to put it right if this is what has caused the problem? (Do you know why it would affect all my previous posts now too?)

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Styles that are defined in CSS can affect content everywhere, so that may be why you’re seeing all your previous posts affected.

    It looks like CSS is causing the issue, but I can’t identify where it’s coming from.

    Do you have a “Custom CSS”, or similarly named, part of the dashboard? If it’s not apparent then you probably don’t.

    Thread Starter Yvonne S

    (@yvonne-s)

    In the “appearance” menu is a “customize” button, and there is also an “Edit CSS” button and an “editor” button. My daughter has been working in the “Editor’ button.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    The “Edit CSS” button leads you to a place where you can add CSS modifications separate to the theme’s files, so that you can easily identify which CSS has been added and narrow down which CSS is breaking. It also prevents the CSS modifications from being erased when the theme updates.

    Could you ask your daughter to transfer her CSS modifications to the “Edit CSS” part?
    https://jetpack.me/support/custom-css/

    Thread Starter Yvonne S

    (@yvonne-s)

    Andrew, thanks very much again. We both tried various things in the CSS with no luck and then, since you’d thought it might be an issue with Word, my daughter decided to check the HTML of the post that I’d just done. There was a lot of HTML that shouldn’t have been there and when she removed that everything went back to how it should be!
    So thanks for your suggestion.

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