• I recently bought the pro version of the Sugar and Spice theme, My website is http://www.stephscheersandjeers.com and I am trying to figure out how to change the color of links in my posts(the color of the regular writing is black and I want the links to be pink.) Iv looked around at some tutorials but haven’t been able to figure it out.

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  • Have you managed to do this already ? If so then you can mark the thread as resolved.
    Otherwise just which link do you want to colout, please give us the page, the location, and quote the text from the link.
    Otherwise, install and use firebug, it will let you read how your css is being used.

    bought the pro version

    unfortunately, commercial versions are not supported here in the forum – please contact the theme’s developer directly for support.
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products

    as this is a pure formatting issue, try working with a browser inspection tool to identify which styles you need to edit.

    Simple CSS really.

    a { color:pink; } changes the hyperlink colour to pink for your entire site.
    .post-content a { color:pink; } will change and hyperlink within an element class=”post-content”.

    Granted, this is notthe actual code – a good guess on my half, but chances are it will not work.
    The theory is sound, you just need the right classes and styling.

    Thread Starter stephscheersandjeers

    (@stephscheersandjeers)

    I havent been able to resolve this yet, there isnt an option in the theme, I am sure its a CSS or HTML Issue(I really dont know the difference). I’m very new to all of this, as for an example http://stephscheersandjeers.com/gourmet-nut-review/ as you see on this post I have it linked to Gourmet Nuts website when you click on Gourmet Nuts, I want to make that pink instead of black but on all posts not just this one.

    there are a lot of inline styles for instance in the line linking to ‘gourmet nuts’;
    one of the inline span styles sets the text within the link to a black font color.

    this is the coresponding html code from the browser:

    <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://www.gourmetnut.com/" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #000000;">Gourmet Nut </span></a>sells a variety of nuts, salts seeds and spice rubs. Their product menu on their site has five categories, Gourmet To Go, Power Up, Health Seeds, Sea Salts and Spice Rubs.</span></p>

    any theme CSS will have difficulties to compete against that.

    where did you get the text from? did you do ‘copy/paste’?

    try using the ‘text’ setting of the post editor to remove those inline styles.

    In your theme folder will be a style.css file. It contains thousands of lines of css to style the site. The @media lines control the narrower browser windows of pads & phones and will most likely inherit the link styles set before. Unfortunately you have a big learning curve here. You need to identify which bits of css are controlling the link colours, then you can change them. Using a browser inspector can help greatly. Using an ftp program would help editing as the built in editor is appalling. Dreamweaver or something similar is ideal. Possibly BB Edit or similar.

    Welcome to the ghastly time consuming frustrating world of WP.

    But since you bought a Pro version, as someone said, you ought to be able to ask for solutions from the vendor.

    Thread Starter stephscheersandjeers

    (@stephscheersandjeers)

    I was able to go into the edit theme tab and under there under links is this. /* #Links */
    a {
    transition: color 150ms linear;
    -moz-transition: color 150ms linear;
    -webkit-transition: color 150ms linear;
    -o-transition: color 150ms linear;
    }
    a, a:visited { text-decoration: none; outline: 0; }
    p a, p a:visited { line-height: inherit; }

    Does this make sense to anyone? I am really sorry as Im very new to CSS

    There is some CSS animation on the a tags.

    I’d used Developer Tools in Chrome to figure out what styling is being applied to your links.

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