Title: Formatting in WordPress
Last modified: July 3, 2019

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# Formatting in WordPress

 *  [wrknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrknight/)
 * (@wrknight)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-in-wordpress/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wrknight/).

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 *  [Joy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joyously/)
 * (@joyously)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-in-wordpress/#post-11694363)
 * 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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