Title: Dots/Bullets on list
Last modified: August 22, 2016
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# Dots/Bullets on list
* Resolved [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
* (@nerin)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/)
* Hi there,
* I’m testing a new theme locally and when I use the widget two dots are appearing
in the list.
* When I use the widget’s style it looks like this: [http://imgur.com/4NbY5kg](http://imgur.com/4NbY5kg)
* When I disable it, the dots move and look like this: [http://imgur.com/yhG0Bb6](http://imgur.com/yhG0Bb6)
* I haven’t had this problem on my old site. I see posts from a month or so back
from people with the same issue and they haven’t been resolved. Wondering if
anyone has a solution?
* [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-popular-posts/)
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* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423384)
* Hi Nerin,
* Well, it’s hard to tell what’s going on without seeing the actual HTML output.
Can you post it here or maybe publish that theme somewhere that can be reached
online?
* Thread Starter [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
* (@nerin)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423388)
* I’m not able to put the site live at the moment.
The output I’m getting is as
follows:
* ```
Recently Popular
Recently Popular
```
* I’ve looked at a lot of the other bullet point issues here going back four years
and haven’t found a fix yet. Some of them suggest going into the css of the theme
but there is nothing there in editor for wpp.
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423389)
* I don’t see anything wrong with the HTML output. That markup should display only
one bullet (instead of two) so something else must be causing it.
* Since you can’t publish the site yet, the only way I can help you out is by reviewing
the entire code. Is there any chance you could upload the theme somewhere (a
zip file, maybe) so I can test it locally? Otherwise, we are going to be shooting
arrows in the dark.
* Thread Starter [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
* (@nerin)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423393)
* Sure, where can I drop you a pm?
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423419)
* Unfortunately (and fortunately at the same time) these forums don’t have such
a feature as private messages. Hit me at hcabrerab @ Gmail.
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423511)
* Hi Nerin!
* I just took a look at your theme and the double bullet issue you reported before.
* The issue is theme related. The _main.css_ stylesheet is adding bullets to all
_A_ HTML tags (links) in widgets using the [:before CSS selector](http://quirksmode.org/css/selectors/beforeafter.html)(
see [here](http://i57.tinypic.com/m7ryxe.jpg)), and so it happens that WPP wraps
the thumbnails in _A_ HTML tags too – hence one bullet for the thumbnail and
another one for the post title.
* My guess is that for some reason the theme developers wanted to add bullets to
HTML lists (UL) without using the [list-style CSS property](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/list-style),
so they chose to use the _:before_ selector. It’s not a bad idea _per se_, but
as you can see it has side effects they may not have thought of.
* So, what to do?
- You can disable that style and the bullets will be gone ([as I did on the screenshot](http://i57.tinypic.com/m7ryxe.jpg)),
or
- Use [WPP’s filters](https://github.com/cabrerahector/wordpress-popular-posts/wiki/3.-Filters)
to customize the HTML output and remove the A tag from the thumbnail (here’s
an [example](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-thumbnail-bigger-with-post-excerpt?replies=27#post-6136149)
on how to use them), or
- [Ask the Momizat team for support](http://www.momizat.com/support/?envato_item_id=8103494),
they might have a better suggestion to get rid of the double bullets issue
without affecting other elements of the theme.
* Thread Starter [Nerin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nerin/)
* (@nerin)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423516)
* That’s brilliant Hector, I really appreciate it. Messed around with the HTML
output and it fixed things as I wanted.
Thank you!
* Plugin Author [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* (@hcabrera)
* [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423517)
* No problem, anytime mate 🙂
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## Tags
* [bullets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bullets/)
* [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
* [dots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dots/)
* [list](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/list/)
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* Last reply from: [Hector Cabrera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hcabrera/)
* Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dotsbullets-on-list/#post-5423517)
* Status: resolved