Site logo

Archived topic

Links color do not change

11 replies · Started by Swadhin on November 3, 2018

Viewing posts 1–12 of 12

Hi there,

I am seeing that links on my blog (well not all but some) do not change color (they've default text color). While I've set link color to blue those links appear black.

This is a serious issue as it can get my site penalized for hiding links. Please help me solve this.

I've added site below. (please search
'massive list' to find the link)

Hi there,

The page you linked shows "Oops! That page can’t be found."

Can you double check and link me to the correct page and point me to which link you are referring to?

Hi Leo,

I've updated the link :)

No I am referring to the one with anchor text "massive list of blog post topics". Here is the screenshot

Please note the browser is chrome, though.

I'm using chrome and this is what I see:
https://www.screencast.com/t/4fxtxStG

Can you try clearing your browser cache?

If this doesn't help can you turn off Autopimize so I can see the source of the code?

I tried but it still doesn't solve the issue. You can check this page. Here is the screenshot for you too. I've checked in edge browsr and that happens there too.

I've disabled the autoptimize plugin and cleared the cache too.

For the time being, please give me some type of codes that underline the internal links (only inside post and page not sidebar or anywhere else) and disappears on hover. Like it is on this page search for this phrase "As per Canva.com’s research," and see the underline effect for the word "research".

This is to show that there is nothing black hat going on inside my linking strategy until everything is solved.

Can you disable W3 total cache as well? and any other caching plugins you might be using.

Hi Leo,

I have disabled the cache plugin. Now there is no other such plugin/settings. Kindly help me in this (because I need to activate the cache plugin soon).

Thank you,
-Swadhin

Can you give this CSS a shot?

.entry-content a:visited {
    color: #1e73be;
}

Let me know :)

Leo, I have 2 concerns:

1) Will this CSS add color to any other links (buttons, social shares etc) inside the article?

2) By seeing at the CSS I guessed something and went to check the following section on my site:

Customize >>> colors >>> content

Here there are 2 options, links and links hover and both these are left blank (no colors added) is that the cause?

And in another section:

Customize >>> colors >>> body

The option link color is set to #1e73be

and the two options below that, i.e., link color hover and link color visited are set to #000000.

Which amongst the two is culprit? and how they should actually be?

Hi there,

1. The CSS will only effect the content of a Post. Elements hooked outside of that won't be effected.
2. The colors > body > link sets the colors for the entire template. the colors > content > links will override those link colors within the content area.

This archived topic is closed to new replies.