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panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:55:34 +0000

Vivian, where I come from this is called "gilding the pill" - and in this case it's a suppository...

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:55:21 +0000

@panaghiotisadam - no, you're not stupid. You just learned something ;)

zeynel1 on "Freshy Theme Links"

zeynel1 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:51:00 +0000

Thanks for this tip. The links on my blog with MistyLook is fine but in comments they are not underlined and they are so light it's hard to see. So I tried this method and works fine in comments too.

squarerootz on "Freshy Theme Links"

squarerootz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:37:36 +0000

Thanks again to all. Sooner or later I will get this down to a science and be able to contribute more here in the forums rather than be a question asker.

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 11:15:12 +0000

@vivianpaige & arifsali: Therefore I AM that stupid! I was stuck to the idea of changing the color of a LINK. Of course it works the way you say...

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:17:42 +0000

Yes, that's it.

squarerootz on "Freshy Theme Links"

squarerootz — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:47:07 +0000

Ok, so from what I have read on the other links and the discussion here, the simple and less CSS method would be to just highlight and color the word before creating the hyperlink, correct? I'm using a PC and Firefox.

arifsali on "Freshy Theme Links"

arifsali — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:44:13 +0000

@vivianpaige, thank you, that's exactly how I was thinking it works but personally I have always made it work by bringing color codes inside the link codes. As long as is the first and last attribute, you can have color, underline, bold everything show up fine. Alternately as you mentioned, if you color it first and then link, it works fine, but not the other way around.

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:59:46 +0000

Well, I'm a PC :) and as long as I colored it before I linked it, it worked (which is what I show on my test blog) and it works in FF (and IE).

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:52:17 +0000

Update! I said I can't be THAT stupid... so I tried more thoroughly. Seems it's browser AND computer dependent: on my Mac it doesn't work in Firefox (that's the one I'm using most of the time) but it does in Safari. What about you?

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:39:58 +0000

@vivianpaige: Because the color attribute needs to be before the title of the link, while if you highlight the link in the visual editor it gets before the whole link code.

@arifsali: So how did you overcome this "tiny glitch"?

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:35:37 +0000

Yeah, I tried it on my test blog, too and it worked http://vjptestblog2.wordpress.com/2008/11/29/test-colored-links/

arifsali on "Freshy Theme Links"

arifsali — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:21:18 +0000

There is a tiny glitch to it but it works fine. See here: http://webwanderings.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/test/

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:12:52 +0000

Why not? (Not that I've tried it, mind you.)

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:07:56 +0000

@squarerootz: Here's some info on hex numbers:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/another-links-in-posts-question?replies=7#post-262179

@arifsali & vivianpaige: Sorry, not a good point - doesn't work that way.

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:06:52 +0000

Good point, arifsali

vivianpaige on "Freshy Theme Links"

vivianpaige — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:06:18 +0000

The exact order of the info is in that link above. As for finding the hex code, if you google CSS colors, you'll find a chart with all of the codes in them.

arifsali on "Freshy Theme Links"

arifsali — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:05:46 +0000

Why worry about html when you can do the same thing with visual editor. Try coloring your link (even underline it) using visual editor's icons.

squarerootz on "Freshy Theme Links"

squarerootz — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:04:19 +0000

I was afraid of that. Thanks for the info though and good to hear from you again. Since I'm still kind of new to HTML, although I have a general knowledge of what goes where, what would be the hex # for the green in the Freshy theme. Then I guess the next questions would be: I enter this script in the HTML writer correct? If so where exactly do I place it? Before the link, after the link or do I put the link inside the scripting?

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:01:14 +0000

The appearance of links varies from theme to theme.

Without CSS, you can change their color via html; see here:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sunburn-cant-see-some-text-against-background-color?replies=8#post-271924

panaghiotisadam on "Freshy Theme Links"

panaghiotisadam — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:59:14 +0000

The appearance of links varies from theme to theme.

Without CSS, you can change their color via html; see here:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/sunburn-cant-see-some-text-against-background-color?replies=8#post-271924

squarerootz on "Freshy Theme Links"

squarerootz — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:49:30 +0000

I have been using the Freshy theme for a little while now and like it cause of the clean lines and color scheme. My question; is there a way to have the hyperlinks I add to a post be a different color?
Whenever I write a post and add a hyperlink to another page with added info or an audio download, the links, when the post is viewed are light gray and underlined. I can see them and know its a clickable link just fine but my readers seem to miss them for some reason.
Not sure if it's lack of wanting to click them or if the coloring makes it unknown as an actual link to the reader but I'm trying to dummy proof my posts and get more clicks.
I don't want to just stop adding hyperlinks cause I feel they add to my blog's content but if the readers aren't seeing them due to the coloring is there a way to change that without getting too technical with CSS.
Would a theme change make them more noticeable or does any theme's hyperlinks default to light gray without CSS manipulation being involved?