Hyperlink colour
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Hello everyone. This is Shobha and I blog at http://www.shobha.wordpress.com. I use the Adelle theme for my blog. However I just realised that my hyperlinks are not showing up on the site. I mean that the hyperlinked text don’t stand out in terms of their colour (which is pink). And unless one hovers over the text, there is no way to know that I have shared a link. I need help. Can you please advise me how to rectify this situation? Thank you. :-)
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There is nothing that needs rectification IMHO. I’m visually challenged and I can see the links. However, I find that the bold black lettering in your post is awfully hard on my eyes.
You cannot chnage the link color unless you have purchased the annually renewable custom design upgrade
https://store.wordpress.com/premium-upgrades/custom-design/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/editing-css/
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After purchasing the upgrade see:
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Hi :-) Thank you. I think I was not clear. The hyperlink colors are not showing up. While earlier the hyperlinked text would be pink, now the color doesn’t show up any longer. What can I do?
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The links in your sidebar display in Firefox 22, IE8 and on Chrome 27 for me. Are you referring to links in post text?
It looks to me like you are copying and pasting the content into posts as that font does not come with the theme. If you are not copying and pasting then you are coding every post in the text editor.
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Yes. I am referring to the links in post text. And yes, I usually type my posts on a word doc first and then directly paste it on the text editor. And the font is ‘Heading 4’. The default colour is grey but it becomes difficult to read and hence I change the colour to black everytime. Is that the reason why the hyperlink color is not showing up? What can I do for it for show up once again?
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And the font is ‘Heading 4’.
Headings are not fonts. They have significant meanings to search engines and ought not to be used for the purpose you are using them at all.
The bad news is that some WordPress.com bloggers are using heading tags in their blog posts and pages just to make some text smaller or larger and doing that undermines the excellent SEO built into WordPress.com themes. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/05/08/wordpress-com-heading-tags-from-h1-h6/
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Microsoft Word is a word processing program that’s not compliant with web standards. The result of copy and pasting from Microsoft Word into the Tiny MCE editor in WordPress blogs can be unexpected, and contain a lot of formatting code that’s not compliant unless you know how to use the built-in features in the Visual editor for using Word cleanly. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#pasting-text
Note you need to click the kitchen sink icon #15 at the end of Row 1 to have Row 2 appear. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#row-1
Go here and enable this > Settings > Writing
Formatting
_ WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically
“save changes”I recommend using Windows Live Writer for posting to your blog > http://en.support.wordpress.com/xml-rpc/windows-live-writer/
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This is the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
This is the general link model:
<a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>This is the visual result – it’s not actually linked.
Highlighted anchor text here1. Enter the anchor text you want to link to first.
2. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. (If you don’t highlight the anchor text the chain icon will remain grayed out and not be useable.)
3. Next click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link.For more see > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/05/20/creating-html-hyperlinks-links-in-wordpress/
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Wow! Thank you so much for explaining these things to me. I am tech-challenged and thank you for making it so easy for me. I’m changing it all to the original font format i.e. Paragraph. I end up using Word because I am so used to it. I find it difficult to type on the text editor. I will try using Windows Live Writer. I’m hearing about it for the first time. Thank you for explaining this to me. :-) Will make those changes and let you know if it works. :-)
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a) You can use Word, just don’t copypaste from Word (or any other source) into the Visual editor: paste into the Text editor, so that only the text and no wrong code will be added.
b) To clear up your posts, select all in the Visual editor, select Paragraph from the Format tool to remove the styling for headings but also click the “Remove formatting” tool (eraser icon) to get rid of the wrong color codes.
c) If you want black text and larger font size, use this code in the Text editor (change the percentage to adjust the size):
<div style="color:#000000;font-size:120%;"> COMPLETE CONTENT HERE </div>This will give you black for regular text but it will not affect the default color of the links.
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Yayyy! It works. Hyperlinks are showing up again. Now to download Windows Live Writer. Is there any other open source alternative to Windows Live Writer? And Thank you so much! :-)
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You’re welcome.
Yes, if you want to change the color and the size of every post, you have to add the code to each and every post.
If you had the Custom design upgrade, you would be able to make this change once for all in the CSS editor. -
Warning: If you start coding font changes into every post and page you create and publish and later choose to switch themes then you may regret doing that.
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Thank you Timethief :-)
Oh no! That’s tiresome! I wish there was a simple theme that gave me the kind of font colour I wanted instead of the default grey colour, which is not very easy on the eye. This is why I find WordPress overwhelming. It isn’t exactly easy. But you guys have been fantastic! Thank you so much for patiently explaining all this to a tech-challenged me. Lots of gratitude. :-)
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There are quite a few themes with black or almost black font color. You can check the live demos of all the themes here:
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Are you visually challenged too? The default text color is easy on my eyes and is in line with accessibility standards. I wouldn’t waste my time coding every flipping post and page in any blog. My job is contracted writing and I blog to express myself, not to make blogging into a job. When I don’t like a free theme I choose another one. lol :D
Your alternative to accepting what is is to reach into your wallet and purchase an annually renewable CSS upgrade and do the required CSS editing. There is no click a link and adjust font size throughout the entire blog option for free hosted WordPress.com blogs. Each theme designer defines the font styles, sizes and colors for each theme and the only way to change that throughout the whole blog is to purchase and annually renewable cusom design upgrade and do the requires CSS editing.
See:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/
Custom Design – Frequently Asked Questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/#frequently-asked-questions
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-fonts/
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