For reason unknown the makers of the WordPress Parallax Content Slider continue to not have an option in the user settings to change the font when it’s clearly too big for most people! They start that bad boy out at 66px! You can’t even see most your post title. It’s beyond ridiculous, and sad for such a cool free WordPress content slider! The method mentioned here works with the latest version as of January 2015 which is Version 0.9.8. Simply update the Plugin within Installed Plugins in your WordPress Dashboard.
Since these Wizard Masters haven’t the foresight to give us the option to change the font in our Dashboard we’ll have to edit their style file. You will need open you site up with FTP software, a file manger, or whatever method you can to acquire your sites files. Then go to the folder containing your WordPress blog. Go to the Wp-Content folder, and then the Plugins folder. Within that folder click the WP-Parallax- Content-Slider folder. Finally go into the css folder, and copy the style.css file, Save one file on your desktop to edit, and another in a different folder as a back-up in case you mess up. If you have an online file manager you can edit that way as well.
The file on your computer might not open up with anything so right click it, and then click Open With Notepad. Then click edit, and then find in the Notepad file to search for the word font. The second result in the search should yield this:
.da-slide h2{
color: #fff;
font-size: 66px;
Change the font-size to 20px, or any number you’d like. Then save the file. Replace the style.css on your server with your edited Notepad file, and then refresh your blog to see if the title in the slider is smaller. You can continue to change the font-size number until you get the size you desire. You may also alter the font color.
Searching for the word font another 3 searches down, or 5 from the top of the Notepad document should get you this code:
.da-slide p{
width: 45%;
top: 155px;
color: #916c05;
font-size: 18px;
Again you can change font-size here to alter the size of the description font below the title in the slider along with the color as well. Then save your file to the server replacing the current style.css. Studying the style.css file further will aid in further altering the content slider to fit the needs of your website because God knows the folks down at WP Parallax Content Slider aren’t going to help you!
Congratulations you’ve defeated the idiocy of the WP Parallax Content Slider!
