Formatting in WordPress

  • wrknight

    (@wrknight)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    I want to be able to change font, font size, and other standard word processing format items in my blog by clicking on controls in the edit menu bar rather than resorting to CSS code. The vanilla edit menu provided with my WordPress installation is extremely limited and I can’t find any way to add additional formatting control buttons. I have been down a hundred blind alleys looking for some way to enhance the edit menu with no luck.

    Is there a plug-in that will do this or is there some other way to expand WordPress formatting capabilities without resorting to CSS code writing?

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by wrknight.
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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    You want web publishing to be the same as desktop publishing? It won’t ever be.
    The browser will condense white space and reflow text to fit the window size, but that never happens in a word processor, which is targeted to a specific size of paper when you start. The browser has to load the fonts to show the visitor. The word processor uses the font from the computer it is running on.

    In web pages, there are two steps to using a font. The font has to be loaded for the browser to pull the glyphs as needed, and the CSS has to indicate which font to use where. In the word processor, this is combined into one step.

    So, you can’t have the same editing controls as in a word processor unless you have a plugin that takes over from the theme. Loading fonts is slow because they are big. Google Fonts shows an estimate of how much your site would be slowed when you choose more than one font to load.

    Themes can provide a unified appearance for pages on a site. If you have too many individual differences it looks chaotic, and changing themes won’t help (styling would be baked in to each page).

    There are page builder plugins and there are block plugins and there are editor advanced plugins. But try not to go crazy with the fonts.

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