[Pro] blogger and widgets

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Well it didn’t. It’s weird it shows up for Blogger Post but not for blogger archive and blogger profile but it works on blogger so it’s all fine.

Caleb, thank you again sooooooo much. You saved me a lot of time and nerves and tears.

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One more thingy (sorry)
I noticed that all my blog titles are bold now. They are not bold at the side bar.
I couldn’t find where to change that.
Shouldn’t it be here?
h3.post-title { font-family:Unkempt, Helvetica, Arial, sans serif;font-size:24px; text-align:Left; }

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Nina,

If you are trying to make the just the post titles “un-bold”: In Freeway go to edit/styles. Now create a new style by pressing the + button. In the tag field, enter .post-title and delete anything in the name field (this is really important, you might have to tab out of it to keep Freeway from re-entering the name in that field). Click on the extended button, and then click on the “new” button. Enter font-weight in the name box, and 300 in the value field.

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Yay, it worked! I promise I will not bother you anymore for a long time … hopefully. Thanks again for everything!

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Picking up this thread:

When I replace my blog’s code in the template editor, it never gives me the alert about the widgets. What am I doing wrong?

Blog is here: http://lovemymondays.blogspot.co.uk/

(I’m trying to format my Labels’ widget)

Thanks
Gavin

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If you are not seeing the alert, you probably aren’t doing anything wrong. :slight_smile:

In Blogger, go to the “Template” tab in the left navigation bar. Click the orange “Customize” button. Hop to the “Advanced” tab. Paste this CSS in there.

.widget {
  font-family: 'Inika', serif;
  color: white;
}

.widget h2 {
  text-align: left;
}

.widget ul {
  font-size: 14px;
}

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Thanks, Caleb - you’re a superstar! :slight_smile:

Is there a way of specifying a different font for the heading and the list of labels?

And why don’t the arrows work on the blog archive?!

Gavin

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No problem, glad to help!

The arrows work over here just fine (Safari 7 on Mavericks). What browser is showing these issues?

Yep, there is a way to specify different fonts. These are the different CSS selectors that I’ve used and what they do:

  • .widget. Any styles applied to this element will apply to the entire widget, unless overridden by the following selectors.
  • .widget h2. Any styles applied to this will only affect widget headers.
  • .widget ul. Styles for this get applied a list in a widget, like the list of labels.

Hence, if you want to use Helvetica for the list of links, here’s a remix of the code above:

.widget {
  font-family: 'Inika', serif;
  color: white;
}

.widget h2 {
   text-align: left;
}

.widget ul {
    font-size: 14px;
    /* and here's the money */
    font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
}

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Caleb, again, a huge thanks.

It’s fine in Firefox and Chrome, but the arrows aren’t working in Safari 5.1.7 on OS 10.7.5. Don’t worry about that, though!

But, whilst I’ve got your ear, and to be a little cheeky, is it easy to tidy-up the comments section, the ‘Recommend on Google’ line, and put a rule between posts?!

Equally, and I’m fairly sure the answer is no, but where the client’s apostrophe’s have all defaulted to an ugly-looking version, is there no way - other than manually going back through the text and retyping - of reverting them to a proper, curly version?

Gavin

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