Redhill Theme Failing to Underline Links??

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    jamesingram17701 · Member ·

    * The Redhill theme seems to show all links underlined in the ‘Edit’ window
    * THE PROBLEM: When viewed in a browser window, the bullet-list and numbered-list links seem to FAIL to display underlined.

    * I have attempted to demonstrate this using a ‘test blog’ at https://test17a.wordpress.com .

    * The 1st image shows a screen capture of the ‘Edit’ window.

    *The 2nd image shows a screen capture of the same text when viewed in the browser window.
    * The bullet-list and numbered-list links FAIL to display underlined.

    * The page at https://test17a.wordpress.com/pg2-redhill-links-demo contains the text used to make the screen captures.

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    ADDITIONAL COMMENTS:
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    * I first noticed this problem with the blog https://MeridianManorDance.wordpress.com .

    * When I switched the theme from Redhill to ‘Twenty Twenty’, the problem seemed to disappear (all links now seem to display correctly underlined when viewed in the browser).

    * ((FYI: This discussion originally started with a different topic https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/publishing-failed-an-unknown-error-occurred ))

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    QUESTIONS:
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    QUESTION 1: Can you VERIFY this problem, by using the information I am submitting to you ?

    QUESTION 2: Is it reasonable, to expect the WordPress.com people to be smart enough to eventually FIX this problem ?

    QUESTION 3: If so, is there a way that I can submit a ‘ticket’ to request that this problem be fixed ?

    THANKS. – James Ingram

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

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    We don’t consider this a problem, rather it is an intentional decision by the theme’s designer. Links within lists simply do not underline.

    What does appear to be the problem here is that the editor is reflecting something different, and we’ll get that taken care of.

    Via Custom CSS https://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/custom-css/ you can override that and make those links underline by adding this:

    li a {
    text-decoration: underline;
}
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    jamesingram17701 · Member ·

    THANKS for investigating this situation.

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    FYI: MY OPINIONS:
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    Now, just some OPINIONS on my part:

    * I cannot imagine anybody actually WANTING to have just PART of their links underlined, and PART of their links not-underlined ??

    * I just reread the info page at https://wordpress.com/theme/redhill , and I see NO WARNING that this theme behaves this way ??

    SUGGESTION:

    * In my humble OPINION, the Redhill info page should carry a message that says something like this:

    . “WARNING, this theme underlines only PART of the links” ??

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    CUSTOM CSS:
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    * Re macmanx’s comment about custom CSS, I am (I believe) prevented from doing this with the free version of this site that I am using ??

    * If I’m understanding the pricing correctly, it would cost me $96/year to upgrade to a premium plan — in order to be able to “fix” that underlining with custom CSS.

    * Since my numerous sites are all non-profit, viewed only very occasionally, by only a very few people — probably my best alternative is to use the ‘Twenty Twenty’ theme (which appears to solve the link problem) ??

  • staff-blorbo · Staff ·

    Correct, it would require a paid Premium Plan to use Custom CSS.

    In this case, I recommend trying a different theme, we have quite a few to choose from: https://wordpress.com/themes

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