Andre
(@creativedreams91)
you would have to insert this in the css
a {
color: #F07373;
}
Andre
(@creativedreams91)
If you know how to use the css
go into the back part with Dashboard.
Go down to Appearance.
Then click on Editor.
then go down on to styles.css under Styles on the Right side with templates at bottom.
go down on the styles.css and replace
a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #343534;
}
change the color to the #f07373
Andre
(@creativedreams91)
or change it to the color you like..
This should work.
Get a custom CSS plugin and put:
a {
color: #F07373;
}
.quickshare a {
color: #343534;
}
The reason this happens is because your theme has two different colors defined for the <a> tag. The orange color is for links within posts and the black color is for all other links. The first part of the code I posted overrides that and makes all links orange, no matter what, and the second part makes the social icons retain their black color. If that’s not what you want, feel free not to include that part of the code.
Thanks to both of you. I tried both solutions and want to report back for future readers of the thread.
Both solutions worked, so I’m sticking with the one that doesn’t need a plugin just to minimize plugin usage.
Hover, the quickshare buttons changed color with both Andre’s solution of CSS editing and stephencottontail’s custom CSS plugin solution.
Any idea on how to get them back to grey?
QuickShare allows you to set a custom color for its icons in its settings page (Settings -> QuickShare, QuickShare Design tab). Just uncheck the “inherit link colors” option and you should get color pickers to select both the icon color and the hover color.
For changing the non-QuickShare link color, editing style.css is a very bad idea, as those changes will be lost when the theme is updated (no, not updating the theme is also a bad idea). Instead, using a custom css plugin is the correct solution (don’t worry about overhead from running a lot of plugins, if they’re well-written it won’t slow anything down). QuickShare does have a custom css field, so you could also put the link color change there, but it’s usually better to keep non-QuickShare-related things out of there in case you decide to stop using the plugin at some point.
