Colour Blocks not showing up for readers
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Hello,
The trouble I am experiencing relates to the use of colour blocks and use of colourised text on my wordpress blog. The problem is that after I have finished composing the blog and posted it on the site, on the blog itself (called SCENIC WRITER’S SHACK) all the blocks with background colour appear as do the blocks where the text has been colourized.
However, what my readers see (and I know as I receive all posts in my email inbox as I am naturally a subscriber to my own blog) is everything in black script ie all the colour sections have been reverted to plain black text.
Please help!
Here is the blog address –
https://goosefleshsite.wordpress.com/Glen
Brisbane
AustraliaThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi Glen, sorry to hear it’s giving you trouble! I’m not sure I’m seeing what you see, though. Could you get screenshots of what you’re seeing, vs what your readers see?
You can upload those to wordpress.com/media.
Please update us here when you’e got that, along with a link to the affected post or page. We’ll go from there!
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Hi Supernovia,
Thank you for engaging with me on this topic.
I have now uploaded wordpress.com/media an image of what I see vs what readers see.Having thought about the problem overnight, I believe I have inadequately described the nature of it. The dilemma relates more I believe to an email glitch. In essence, the version of the blog post that all my subscribers receive automatically in their inbox (including my own inbox, as I am naturally a subscriber to my own blog) has the text stripped of all colour (in the text areas I have chosen to colorize). The version of the blog that appears on the site itself – SCENIC WRITER’S SHACK is fine. It includes colourized text and text blocks with background colour. This is the problem-free version anyone (including you) going through Google will see.
The version that email subscribers receive automatically in their inboxes, however, whenever I post, has the text stripped of ALL colour. I can actually see this is going to happen before I send out the post by simply clicking on the ‘Reader’ screen in the top left hand corner of the composing screen.
I’m not sure anything from your end could be done about this as it appears it relates to a ‘lost in translation’ problem that happens during the emailing process. Still, if you have any ideas or have heard of anyone else experiencing this problem I would love to hear back from you.
Thankyou again Supernovia.
Glen
Brisbane
Australia -
The version that email subscribers receive automatically in their inboxes, however, whenever I post, has the text stripped of ALL colour.
This is intentional and cannot be changed.
The color is set via CSS in the theme itself, but the content of the post sent via email is stripped of everything but text, images, and basic HTML, so no additional styling comes through.
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This is big news for me!
Thank you for alerting me.
Is there any theme in WordPress that will support fully colourized versions of text transmitted via email?It seems hard to believe that users who go to the trouble of making their text stand out in places have that all stripped away as soon as that blog post is transmitted via email. Surely there is a version that will retain the colour in the text?
Thank you so much for replying to me.
Glen
Brisbane
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Hi Glen, sorry I misunderstood your question earlier (didn’t realize you were talking only about email.)
No there aren’t any themes that transmit styling to email. Different email clients handle styles differently, so we just keep it simple.
What you could do, if you wanted to, is only show a preview of the content in the email, so the reader clicks through to the site. Would that work for you? If so, you can set the “Summary” option here.
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Thank you Supernovia.
The ‘Summary’ option from you is brilliant advice and I will indeed take it.
Thank you for your great help.
It has been great to have someone guide me through what was at first a ‘shocking’ realization that my email subscribers are receiving a lesser version of the posts then I had intended.Thanks for making the ‘pain’ less.
Glen
Brisbane
Australia
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