Where can you customize the appearance of links?

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 8:55 pm

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  I can no longer find the page I accessed a long time ago to customize the appearance of links. Does it still exist?

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

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 10:35 pm

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  Hi there,

  You can edit the color of links on your site by going to Appearance → Customize → Colors & Background in your WP Admin Dashboard. If you click on the maroon color that will be the color of your links as seen here:

  

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 12:45 am

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  Thank you for your answer, Grace, but that isn’t what I need to know. When I set up my blog I made the links maroon. Now I want to add bold. Is there any way of doing that without getting into CSS code?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 12:47 am

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  Now I want to add bold. Is there any way of doing that without getting into CSS code?

  No that wouldn’t be possible. Would you like the CSS code for that?

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 1:54 am

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  Yes, please, as well as how to insert the code. If the CSS page showed all of the code for the site I could do it myself, but it doesn’t seem to.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 5:42 pm

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  If the CSS page showed all of the code for the site I could do it myself, but it doesn’t seem to.

  If you right click on the element that you want to edit the CSS, go to Inspect Element and you can see the CSS from there. Here’s what it would look like on Safari:

  

  Then, click on Styles and you will see it there as seen in this screenshot:

  

  Add the CSS you need to the CSS Editor when you go to Appearance → Customize → CSS and you should be set!

  Cheers!

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 8:39 pm

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  I have a Mac. When I right-click on a link, the window that opens does NOT include “Inspect Element.” Now what?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 9:40 pm

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  Please right click on the element on the page that you want to edit. As seen in my screenshot I was selecting the site title.

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 9:42 pm

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  I did. I told you I right-clicked on a link.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Advanced tab.

  Select: Show Develop menu in menu bar

  Now click Develop from the menu bar click Show Web Inspector.

  Then you should be able to Inspect Element.

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 10:43 pm

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  That works. What is the code? I thought I remembered, but I don’t. I also don’t know where to put it so it will change the style of all the links. Thanks.

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 10:49 pm

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  So just to make sure you want all links on your site to be bold?

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 10:51 pm

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  Now that I think more about it, probably just the links within posts should be bold. The links in the sidebar, etc., are already dark enough. So I’d need to code each link in a post separately, correct? What is the code?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 10:56 pm

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  If you just want the links in the post to be bold you don’t need CSS. Just edit the post, select the text/link that you want to bold and hit the B (bold) like you would do normally.

  Cheers!

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  cdalemarilyn · Member · Mar 19, 2015 at 10:58 pm

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  Thanks!