2) I use a lot of scripture in my blog and would love to have some custom CSS that would automatically convert all words in italics to a different font. Can you help with this?

Thanks!

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Still need CSS help with #2 🙂 thanks!

Please add the code in your Appearance > Customize > Custom > CSS

.italic {
    font-style: italic;
}

Then, add italic class to whatever text you’d want to be italic.

Thanks.

Currently I can highlight text in posts and add italics easily. What I would like is for the “italicized text” to be a different font altogether from the body text (such as Cambria for italics and Lato for all else).

Is that possible?

Thanks again 🙂

In that case, you will need to load a separate stylesheet for that with your own styles so that it will be available through the editor.

Add the following code into your Child Theme’s functions.php file.

function my_theme_add_editor_styles() {
    add_editor_style( 'custom-editor-style.css' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_theme_add_editor_styles' );

Now you can add your own styles into that CSS file and it will be applied to your visual editor mode when writing and publishing a post.

Hope that helps.

thanks 🙂

Sorry for the confusion. You can use a plugin like TinyMCE Advanced Professsional Formats and Styles to add your custom styles easily.

Or else please follow the following article for a another alternative step by step guide (http://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-add-custom-styles-to-wordpress-visual-editor/).

Thanks!