Milestone Widget Grayed Out

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    teamsweeney1011 · Member ·

    Why does my milestone widget gray out or fade out in the footer of my blog, making it very difficult to read?

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • eurello · Staff ·

    Hi there – can you please link me directly to the blog and page where the milestone widget appears, so I can take a look? Thanks!

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    teamsweeney1011 · Member ·

    http://teamsweeney20132014.com/ or teamsweeney20132014.wordpress.com

    I probably have to invite you since it’s a private blog and I’m not wild about posting a password in a forum.

  • eurello · Staff ·

    Hi there – no worries, I’m a staff member, so I can access your site. It appears that the custom colors you’ve chosen are being applied to that widget, and the gray color for the “Headings” in particular is causing the text to appear too washed out to read. I have opened a bug report for this issue.

    In the meantime, when I played around with this, it does not seem to happen with many color choices, so I’d suggest trying a similar color for the headings that you like as well — note that you’ll have to save and refresh the page in order to see the change.

    Let me know how this works for you!

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    teamsweeney1011 · Member ·

    I tried a couple different colors, some worked some didn’t. Thanks for helping me solve the problem for my parent open house this evening! Big relief. I would still like to use some of the colors that don’t seem to work with that widget. Let me know how the bug report turns out. It almost seems like the widget needs to be its own color and has to be 100% opaque so the background can’t act on it.

    Thanks again.

  • eurello · Staff ·

    Hi there – Yep, it shouldn’t be that complicated. :) I’ll definitely update you when I have more information about it. Thanks for bringing our attention to this!

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    teamsweeney1011 · Member ·

    Sorry to bother you again but I had a related problem. The new color background made the milestone font color appear better. However, a couple days later on my “Brainteasers” page, I had a similar problem with the new turquoise background color. When I reply to my students, the font color of the reply text is not visible. I took your advice and changed the color once again from a turquoise to a red and the text is slightly more visible. Any way I can change the font color instead of having to change the whole theme background color every time this problem crops up?

  • eurello · Staff ·

    Hi there – Sure, you can do this with CSS. Try this snippet: 

    .lay1 > div .post-content, #posts {
	color: #000000;
}

    That changes the font to black. If you prefer another color, you can replace that color code with whatever you like: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp

    You want to paste that code into the CSS editor in Appearance->Customize->CSS.

    Let me know how it works!

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