Bullet Points Question
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Hi – I’m a newbie using the Andreas04 1.0 template and I’ve added categories
and made some recent posts. How do I add bullet points in front of my various
categories and Recent Posts in the sidebar? Thanks -
i don’t think that’s possible, it’s theme-dependent. if you’re bent on bullet points, then you should use a text widget, link tags and bullet tags.
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As sulz said, you currently cannot style the WordPress Themes you choose unless you are using the paid upgrade feature for the CSS Editor. Then you can add the styles that will make the bullets look differently. Without the CSS Editor, you still will not be able to add bullets or change the look of the links in your sidebar, unless you choose a different theme with a sidebar look you like.
To add text or other items, as sulz mentioned, you can do that with the widgets, but you can’t really add bullets.
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Yeah, but & #8226; Incentive Programs isn’t a great name for a category and would effectively prevent anyone finding you through the tagging system. Nor is & #8226; The Sales Incentive Program’s Rewards a particularly catchy post title. HTML entities are a decent workaround for the blogroll, but that’s about it.
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Using the html encode code would probably work.
Yes, you can add bullets in text widgets using code.
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I’d like to think I’ve got a good handle on CSS, but I’m seeing some really bizarro behavior afoot with the Contempt theme and bullets – at least on Safari and Firefox. I really hope it’s just pilot error, but I’ve got a bad feeling it might not be.
Here are steps to reproduce:
1. Assign the “Contempt” theme to a WordPress.com blog. View the blog in Safari or Firefox and notice that each widget with a list uses circles as bullets. Fair enough.
2. Let’s suppose we want to use a disc (or we could use a square … or “none” if we were gluttons for usability punishment). Let’s edit our CSS and target the list items within each widget, shall we?
#sidebar ul li.widget ul li {
list-style: disc !important;
}We even put !important in there, just to drive the point home. :)
3. Now generate and look at the preview. On Safari, the disc appears to the LEFT of each widget with a list, and meanwhile there are TWO circles leading off each list item! A total of three bullets – yipe! A similar effect befalls Firefox.
(BTW, you can try this in Firebug on Firefox as well – same results.)
I thought I must be doing something incredibly dumb here, but then I tried editing the page source (again using Firebug on Firefox) and applied the above style using the style attribute directly on the list item in question. Same effect!
I know there is a lot of page styling behind the scenes here, so I’m hoping someone may be able to shed some light (or style?) on what might be up. I’m really at a loss as to why my style change is going so haywire. It’s such a basic change.
FWIW, I’ve also written wordpress.com support and they have advised posting to the forums … and here we are!
Clues welcome/appreciated …
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Cuplrit found. That’s not a circle before each widget list item bullet. That really is the letter o (plus a space)!
.entry ul li:before, #sidebar ul ul li:before { content: "o "; }Easily overridden via CSS.
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