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  1. valleygirlv
    Member

    I recently switched themes to Blogum and now the link formatting in posts has become out of whack. Some are just black with a faint underline, others are blue and underlined. For example http://valleygirlv.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/mopno-publication/ compared with http://valleygirlv.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/img_0199/ and/or http://valleygirlv.wordpress.com/2011/07/29/file2/ (which have also lost the returns/paragraph breaks). Would love for posts to appear consistent and neat, hoping there’s a relatively easy fix? Any advice would be much appreciated.

    The blog I need help with is valleygirlv.wordpress.com.

  2. timethief
    Member

    Did you have custom design upgrade for this blog, do CSS editing on it and then change the theme? CSS is theme specific. If you have custom CSS and later change themes, you need to delete whatever CSS you have in the Editor, otherwise, you’ll get undesired results. To ‘reset’ a theme, you need to delete the CSS in the Editor, make sure the “add to existing CSS” radio button is checked, then save. Things should go back to normal.

  3. valleygirlv
    Member

    I do not have the custom design upgrade.

  4. valleygirlv
    Member

    Anyone?

  5. justpi
    Member

    The formatting is inconsistent because the coding of your posts is inconsistent: some content is enclosed in p tags, some in div tags, some in span tags. Have you been copypasting from other sources such as Word?

  6. valleygirlv
    Member

    Thank you for your response. It's true, I have been copypasting from Word as this provided the most consistent appearance. I recognise the div tags, but am not familiar with p tags. What do you suggest?

  7. justpi
    Member

    You should never copypaste from Word into the Visual editor, as it introduces lots of wrong code that mess things up. If you have to copypaste, paste into the HTML editor, so that only the text will be copied, then continue formatting, if necessary, using code or using the Visual editor tools.

    You're not familiar with p tags because plain p tags are hidden in the HTML editor.

    You should delete all the span and all the div tags:

    <span ETC ETC>
</span>
<div ETC ETC>
</div>

    I suggest you start with one post, and after you clean it up you tell us what you'd like to change and we tell you how to do it.

  8. valleygirlv
    Member

    Apologies for the delayed response. I've now deleted a bunch of </span> and </div> tags which has addressed the consistency issues. Thank you for your help justpi, it's much appreciated.

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