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Font controller is a Wordpress plugin that adds a small font size controller into the footer of your blog.

This elegant little Wordpress plugin works with any theme

” Font-Controller places a small font size controller in the footer of your blog, it has three options, increase, decrease and reset. It is based on the Font-Controller jQuery plugin “

You can download the plugin from the Wordpress plugin directory (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/font-controller/)

Here is an example of the controller

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29 comments so far...

  • Heisenberg Said on October 26th, 2009 at 3:32 am:

    Love the icon, but it doesn’t turn into a hyperlink.

  • admin Said on October 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am:

    There was a problem with the wordpress plugin, just switch to the latest version and all should be working well

  • Jānis.Sky Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:20 am:

    Is there a way to put these controller icons elsewhere on the blog? In header for example.

    Apart from placement capabilities its a great extension.

    Thank you.

  • Jānis.Sky Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm:

    I managed to inject controller in header, modifying font-controller.php, but I would like to inject this font controller in middle of my header.php file, so it appears in the place I want.

    get_header puts it on the top of the page, but I would like to put it inside header.php file of my template.

    Maybe this could be solved by implementing some trigger which you can include in code and then it calls for the font controller to show up?

  • yettti Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm:

    how about if i modified it so that when you place something like %fontcontroller% into the header.php file, or any other template file for that matter it would place the font controller there?

  • Jānis.Sky Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 12:15 pm:

    That is exactly what I meant by that "implementing some trigger". Have been using this method for other plugins and I think its great. :)

  • leepton Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:30 pm:

    plase could you be so kind to describe better the way to implement the font controller plugin into a template and if possible the short code to add that in one article or sidebar.

    generally the shrot codes looks like [fontcontroller] and the templete commands are more articulate .. like <?php if(function_exists('fontcontroller')) { fontcontroller(); } ?>

    please excuse me for this maybe silly request,, as you have surely understood i'm a very very beginner with PHP commands

    thank for your support

    my best regards

  • Jānis.Sky Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 3:32 pm:

    Thanks for your quick answer and update.

    Did a little research on function refference add_action and do_action – got it in the right place and working.

    Thank you!! :)

  • yettti Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 4:42 pm:

    You can place the controller in your theme by using
    <?php if (functionexists('fontControllerplace')) : fontController_place('smooth'); ?>

    + remember to update to version 2 for shortcode support

  • yettti Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 pm:

    Update to version 2 and look in the faq, there is a how to there ;)

  • leepton Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm:

    thanks by heart

    i can add only the first option so:

    <?php fontController_place('smooth'); ?>

    because the safer version:
    <?php if (function_exists('fontController_place')) : fontController_place('smooth'); ?>

    return me a error like " Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDWHILE in /web…"

    regards

  • yettti Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 5:12 pm:

    soz, my problem i wrote the php wrong ( sorta used the pascal syntax :S)
    for now use
    <?php if (function_exists('fontController_place')) fontController_place('smooth'); ?>

  • Raúl Said on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm:

    Hi, I downloaded your latest version (2.0) and I get the icons but they don't turn into hyperlinks. Consequently, it doesn't work. I installed it according to your readme. Is there any way you can help me?

    Thanks.

  • yettti Said on November 3rd, 2009 at 4:05 pm:

    I don't know if you give me your site URL i can take a look from the outside and see if i can see any problems

  • Benjamin Jancewicz Said on November 17th, 2009 at 8:27 pm:

    Hi there!
    I love this plugin, but I have two suggestions:

    1. Could you widgetize it? I'd love to be able to move it around in widget boxes, as well as put it in multiple widget boxes at will.

    2. Is there a settings page somewhere? It would be great if it were possible to have a settings page where one could pick between the sets of icons you have, or to upload our own.

    Thanks!

  • Melvis Leon Said on November 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm:

    Hi, I'm using a theme create by Artisteer, and I have a problem with your plugin (3.0.0), instead of changing the size of post content font, it change the size of the meta data font (categories, author, date, etc.).

    How I could fix this?

    Thanks.

  • Melvis Leon Said on November 20th, 2009 at 5:46 pm:

    Sorry I forgot post the site of Artisteer: http://www.artisteer.com/

    Artisteer themes: http://myartisteer.com/

  • yettti Said on November 20th, 2009 at 5:58 pm:

    What you would want to do is change the plug-in's jQuery back-end.
    You'll have to change the ' jQuery("body").css("font-size") '. the '"body" part is the CSS selector that is changed. Example

    jQuery("#id").css("font-size")

    OR

    jQuery(".class").css("font-size")

    … let me know if your need more help

  • Melvis Leon Said on November 21st, 2009 at 3:06 am:

    Thanks!!!!!!! I fixed. A suggestion for next version, could you have an option to change the class.

  • system_forex_ Said on November 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm:

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  • Andy Ford Said on December 3rd, 2009 at 1:11 am:

    Great plugin. I am about to feature this on a site I am going to roll out. Hopeful that it will make the Wordpress Showcase!

  • Spark Yopi Said on January 29th, 2010 at 2:39 pm:

    Is there a way to put these controller icons elsewhere on the blog? In header for example.

    Apart from placement capabilities its a great extension.

    Thank you., Sparky

  • yettti Said on January 29th, 2010 at 5:58 pm:

    Yes, if you want to add it into a template file place <?php if (functionexists('fontControllerplace')) : fontController_place('smooth'); ?>

    or if you want to include it in a post use [fontcontroller] or [fontcontroller=small]

  • Dennis Said on February 7th, 2010 at 7:32 pm:

    Pardon my ignorance, but I installed the Plug In and activated it and there is nothing in my footer or anywhere else. Any thoughts on how to fix the problem? I am very new to WordPress. :^0

    Thank you,
    Dennis

  • Dennis Said on February 7th, 2010 at 7:48 pm:

    Oh, I see. If all else fails, read the directions. Didn't realize any type of code had to be entered. Now to get it in the sidebar and see if it's better there or under the posts.

    Thanks all,
    Dennis

  • Joachim Said on February 23rd, 2010 at 9:13 am:

    Unlike font resizer, font controller works in my theme with IE!
    How can I localize the label "Font controller!? How can I use a different image or change color.l I think the image color is ugly.

    thank you.

  • Joachim Said on February 23rd, 2010 at 9:43 am:

    font-controller.php allows you to localize, change image sizes etc. Great plugin!!

  • yettti Said on February 23rd, 2010 at 4:07 pm:

    Currently there is no UI to do that, changing the images requires you to upload new images into he plugins folder and change the image tags that are written in font-controller.php

    I might add an easer way to do that in in the next version… its definitely on the cards

  • David Said on March 1st, 2010 at 4:28 pm:

    Any chance of adding in a cookie so it remembers the users chosen size of text?

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