Capitalization Styling

  • Resolved Type Historian

    (@type-historian)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    WP 4.7.11
    Suffusion 4.7.11 Child Theme
    Easy Digital Downloads 2.9.6

    The plugin works “as advertised”: it lists and zooms to the H1 headings and H6 sub-headings as specified in the page settings dialog:
    http://bazaar.typeheritage.com/invitation-questionnaire/

    The downside is that H6 is theme-defined as *small caps.* The Table of Contents plugin converts the typography to lower case, which looks “lame.”

    Is there a way to display the headings selected with the same attributes specified by the theme?

    Many thanks for your help, Anna

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Steven

    (@shazahm1hotmailcom)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    @type-historian

    Sorry, no, it is not possible to “inherit” the typography styles applied to a heading within the post. Enabling such an feature would break the TOC in many not so lovely ways. Just browse around the web for a minute or two and see all the different ways headings are styles. Now imagine those styles within a TOC.

    That said…

    You can style the TOC to make them small caps. Add this to the theme’s custom CSS area:

    #ez-toc-container ul ul ul ul ul ul li {
	font-variant: small-caps;
}

    Hope that helps!

    ps. I’m no SEO expert, but, I seem to recall that skipping heading levels is not ideal for SEO. Meaning you should not use H6 under H1. It should be H1 and then H2. There’s guidance on this by SEO expert on the web if you’d like to learn more. Here’s jus one 🙂

    Thread Starter Type Historian

    (@type-historian)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you SO much for your prompt and extra-helpful response! Since I’m a typographer, I’m super-picky about how text looks to site visitors, who are also typographers.

    The code you supplied worked perfectly. The TOC looks better now than before, and I can live with it. I don’t love it because it lacks contrast with the H1 headings (color, bold, etc.): http://bazaar.typeheritage.com/invitation-questionnaire/

    Your SEO heading-hierarchy tip may be the solution… Maybe I should rethink the formatting of heading levels with this reality in mind.

    Thanks again for this cool plugin and for your most generous attention to my concerns.

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