Hi Folks,

Changing text size for your posts within Wordpress is easy for me but when I first did it, it was far from easy.

Why would you want to change font size? Glad you asked… Bigger text is easy to read obviously.

Part of your job as a content provider is to create effortless consumable content for your readers. Making your font size bigger achieves a part of that goal. However, if you have a blog where the outcome is to just get licks on banners and links that make money, then making your font size smaller will do the trick. If this is your goal, that’s your business and as a side note, you’ll continually have to spend your time driving new traffic.

The following is a step by step walk through for changing font size.

Step 1

On your computer open up a brand new document using notepad then save as “CSS” and put it in your folder that holds everything related to your blog.

Step 2

Login to your wordpress blog’s admin panel. Once in, navigate to Design (1) Theme Editor (2).

Step 3

On the right hand side of your Theme Editor window, there are links to your theme pages. Click on “Stylesheet” (1) and you should see that page load in the window. Now Select all text in that text box and past it into the notepad document we made earlier called “CSS”. This is critical because if anything goes wrong with your blog you now can past in your back up and restore your blog to its original state.

Step 4

Scroll to the top of the Stylesheet and look for the word “body” (1) then find font size (2) and increase the size one point for starters. Last, scroll to the bottom and click “Update File”.

Now open up a new window or tab so you can see what your blog looks like with the increased font size.

You’ll need to go through step 4 a few times to get it the way you want it. Also, each blog theme may have different looking code so you’ll need to find what code controls your text size. As long as you back up your style sheet like I showed you can not mess anything up.

Hope this helps.

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