Changing the colour of archive text on a page created with shortcode

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  souldestructionblog · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 9:41 am

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  I have created a page using archives shortcode but I would like to change the text colour of the archives listings. I have tried adding in span code but it isn’t changing the text colour. Can someone help me to do this, or let me know if it’s not possible please? Many thanks.
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  justpi · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 10:20 am

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  a) The span tag is for isolated characters, words or phrases inside a paragraph, not for a complete section.
  b) The color of the list is the default link color of the theme. You could change this once for all if you had the Custom Design upgrade. Without the upgrade, you can only change each separate link by modifying the link code.
  c) But that’s not possible when you use a shortcode, as you don’t have access to each individual link. You can only change the color if you create a manual list of links to your posts instead of using the archives shortcode. Not worth the trouble, since you’d also have to update the list manually each time you publish a new post.

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  souldestructionblog · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 10:31 am

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  Thank you very much for letting me know. I really appreciate it.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm

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  You’re welcome. In case you don’t agree with my “not worth it”, here’s how you can change the color of individual links:

  Formatting text pt. 5: color, size, and font