separate style/hover behaviour for read more link?

First of all You dont need write as much CSS as You write
from Your CSS


.readmore { color: #663333;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

.readmore a:link { color: #663333;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

.readmore a:hover { color: #993333;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #663333;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

.readmore a:visited { color: #663333;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

instead, try this

span.readmore a {
color: #663333;
text-decoration: none;
border-bottom: none;
font-style: normal;
font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;
font-weight: normal;
}

span.readmore a:hover {
hover state color and tex-decoraration or what You want
}

Note, that You dont need repeating the same font-family properties

on :hover and :visited pseudoclass

Hope this specificity tricking help

You re right, i am miss this fact from your sourse

try

a span.readmore {
styling here
}


please note, you will be styling span instead of a element

If You feel You can, just add class “readmore” in place where this links “born” in php source
than style this class as You wish

My pleasure, spoole.

But if You really want to style a element instead of span, You need to ajust class “readmore” to Your link. To do this

1) Open file template-functions-post.php from Your wp-includes (WP-INCLUDES, NOT WP-CONTENT) dir.

2) Backup this file into another dir

3) Find line number 92 (wp 2.02, wp 2.03 )
it seems like

4) Ajust class “readmore” with compatibility with PHP sintax
ie

class=\"readmore\"

5) Save and run WP. In page source You will find
this link (a href) element with readmore class ajusted to it

6) Style .readmore as You wish in Your CSS file

7) If something goes wrong – just use Your old template-functions-post.php file or get it new from anothe WP installation.

Please note, if upgrade WP, chance are You will be in need to repeat this procedure.

Although i know the suggested editing of PHP files will work, I wonder if this is the most effective solution. Its “future-proof” aspects seem lacking.

Upgrading the WP install would (if im not mistaken) replace these files, requiring another edit, waiting to be overlooked or forgotten about.

Although it seems like an inane aspect, would this problem not be better suited as a plugin or perhaps a core feature?