Making text Bold in the Text Widget

[Angelina & Lawrence Birney]

Hi Bill,

Is there a way to bold the text inside the Text Widget? I have some quotes in a text widget on my Homepage and I want to bold the authors names.

Here’s the site: http://www.purevisionfoundation.org

Thanks much,

Angelina

[Bill Robbins]

Hello Angelina,

Great question. You might consider using the Black Studio TinyMCE Widget plugin. It adds a widget that has an editor like one from pages/posts so you can more easily add in styles, links, images and so on. You could make it bold just with some HTML, but the widget is a nice option to consider.

If you need help, just let me know,
Bill

[Angelina & Lawrence Birney]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for sending me the info on Black Studio. Could you also let me know the HTML for bolding inside the Foundation Theme’s Text Widget so I can add that to the Theme Options page and try that before adding a new plugin?

Trying to keep things simple at this point. Again, thanks for your patience and help with this.

Angelina http://www.purevisionfoundation.org

[Bill Robbins]

No problem. You can add HTML to any text widget. WordPress will filter it out of the theme options page or if you’re using the visual editor to write your posts/pages. So as long as you enter it into a text widget, you’ll be good.

Place this before the text:

<strong>

Then write your text you’d like to have bold. Once that’s done, place this after your text:

</strong>

and save your widget. If you’d like to make it italics, just replace the “strong” in both snippets above with em.

Let me know if you run into any trouble,
Bill

[Angelina & Lawrence Birney]

Wow! That is so cool!

I really appreciate it, Bill.

Best,
Angelina

[Bill Robbins]

Anytime Angelina. Have a great day 🙂

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