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Social Rant’s New Spring Outfit

Posted: February 20th, 2012 | Author: | Filed under: Social Media | 2 Comments »

I don’t do it often, but this weekend I finally got around to giving the blog a slightly different look. I’m considering a background and a header image, but for right now I was happy to get a happier looking layout going on the blog. Each time I do this I discover a few favorite plugin to help me, so I wanted to share the new one.

The Google Fonts plugin easily allows you to add fonts from the Google Fonts Directory to your blog. So if you’re not the most technically inclined like myself and tend to forget to dot your i’s and cross your t’s in CSS stylesheets, this is a good match for you. It let’s you select the exact text (H1, H2) you want to customize and pick the font you want to change it too. They also give you a little CSS box for you to put any additional stuff in – like bolded or uppercase styling.

Google fonts plugin

I wish they showed an actual preview of the font in the WP admin panel so I would know what I was selecting without having to keep an additional tab open for the Google Fonts Directory. But still, it made the font selection process a whole lot easier than it has been before so I’m happy with it.

This was a very good, basic blogging reminder for me: if there is something you want to do with your blog with design or widgets or features, there’s probably a plugin that will take care of it for you! Don’t work hard, work smart. And get back to blogging. :)


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susansilver 113 pts

Blog Makeovers can be nice! Even though I love my theme, I can't modify for stuff I want to do. I am thinking of getting a new responsive theme. I have one for my portfolio and I thought it would make bookends if I used the same one for my blog. Have one with a light background and one with a dark!

JanetAronica 27 pts moderator

susansilver Sounds like cool project! Have fun with the re-design :)

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