• Resolved hanochy

    (@hanochy)


    I have a template that I use to manually list items at ebay. The template contains links to external styling & fonts using link href. When I list items like that I have no errors.

    When I try put this as is in the template editor screen of wp-lister the links to styles and fonts are removed.

    So in order to solve it I put those links in the Stylesheet area using @import. This works in the preview and worked really well with my old ebay listings (from a few months ago) but with new ones I get an error from ebay saying that my listing contains non-clickable links.
    When I remove the @import I don’t have an error but I also lose all my styling.

    Is there a way to add link href for styling to the template?

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  • Plugin Support WP Lab Support

    (@wp-lab-support)

    Hello hanochy.

    I am happy to assist you today.

    If eBay is saying that you cannot have non-clickable links in your listings then why not just insert the css into the stylesheet section on the listing template page and forget about using external css?

    Kind regards,
    John

    Thread Starter hanochy

    (@hanochy)

    I can do it for my own css, however I also use google fonts and fontawsome for the styling so I need fonts.googleapis.com/css and font-awesome.min.css as well.

    Plugin Support WP Lab Support

    (@wp-lab-support)

    Hello hanochy.

    The last user who had issues with this was resolved by using “@import”. I’m not sure why you are having issues. For this user we did update the CSS from 4.3 to 4.7 so the import line looked like:

    @import url('INSERT URL TO CSS');
    

    If that is not working, I would ask you to submit a ticket here: Support Form provide a link to this email thread, your dashboard URL, admin login credentials, and a sample SKU we can examine.

    Kind regards,
    John

    Thread Starter hanochy

    (@hanochy)

    I found the problem and the solution.
    1.
    @import url('INSERT URL TO CSS');
    not work at all, at least not for me because of ebay’s non-clickable link error.

    2.

    <head>
    <link href="URL" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    </head>

    works only if I paste it in the “text” tab of the html editor and save the template without changing to “visual” tab. If I switch to visual tab, the links disappear.

    So, this is good enough for me at the moment.

    Plugin Author WP Lab

    (@wp-lab)

    You should be able to put that working HTML snippet in the section labeled “header.php” in your listing template.

    This header.php section is meant for exactly that use case: To add custom HTML code to your listing template that would otherwise get removed by the WYSIWYG editor when switching between visual and text mode. The footer.php section serves the same purpose, but CSS stylesheets should ideally be linked in the header section.

    kind regards,
    Matt

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