Differentiating Links / Hyperlinks

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• August 7, 2015 at 2:56 am #80847
  melprotoss

  Member

  Hi, links / hyperlinks in the body text appear homogenous with the rest of the body text. Is there any way to differentiate them so that people will know they are links?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  August 7, 2015 at 6:23 pm #81098
  michaelbeil

  Member

  Hey Mel,

  Can you send me a URL and/or screenshot of what you are seeing? Thanks.

  August 8, 2015 at 1:17 am #81104
  melprotoss

  Member

  Original poster

  Hi Michael, if you take a look at this page (https://melvynfoo.wordpress.com/stories/), you see that there does not appear to be any links at a first glance, because the text is completely homogenous. In actual fact, the first line of each paragraph is a link to a PDF file.

  Similarly, in this post (https://melvynfoo.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/taize-15-pilgrimage-of-trust/), the footnote numbers at the bottom of the blogpost are all internal links to footnotes within the body of the text, but they do not appear differentiated at all, so no one knows that they can click on those footnote numbers to be re-directed.

  August 8, 2015 at 9:58 pm #81106
  michaelbeil

  Member

  It seems like you must have some custom CSS in place on your theme. Is that true? In the uncustomized version of Largo we add an underline to any hyperlinked text.

  You could add this to make the link appear differentiated:

  .entry-content p a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #000000;
  }

  Feel free to change the color to some other hexadecimal color and/or leave out the text decoration.

  Let me know if that helps.

  August 9, 2015 at 12:47 am #81108
  melprotoss

  Member

  Original poster

  No, I do not have any custom CSS in place In fact, I do not have WordPress Premium, so I am unable to edit the CSS code – both to remove or to add any underline to the theme.

  Is there a way to rectify this without getting WordPress Premium?

  August 9, 2015 at 12:58 am #81109
  melprotoss

  Member

  Original poster

  I realised what the problem is! I changed my fonts using the customiser (which does not require WordPress Premium) instead of using the default Largo font. That probably replaced the uncustomised Largo CSS fonts, so the links became homogenous.

  Is there any way to get both – a change in font and differentiated links – without getting WordPress Premium?

  August 10, 2015 at 6:31 pm #81135
  michaelbeil

  Member

  Ok. Are you using PT Serif small as the base font?

  August 11, 2015 at 12:36 pm #81138
  melprotoss

  Member

  Original poster

  Open Sans small.

  August 11, 2015 at 9:21 pm #81139
  michaelbeil

  Member

  I see what is going on. It appears like there has been a change to the way fonts are sized on WordPress.com, so we will need to check on how we can make sure everything is styled.

  In the meantime, let me know if you need anything.

  August 22, 2015 at 8:33 am #81167
  melprotoss

  Member

  Original poster

  Hi Michael, any updates on this? The problem does not seem to be fixed yet.

  August 24, 2015 at 7:34 pm #81168
  michaelbeil

  Member

  Today is your day, as we are working on sending a fix for this today.

  August 28, 2015 at 6:27 pm #81182
  sixhours

  Staff

  Howdy! This should now be fixed. :)

  August 28, 2015 at 6:56 pm #81183
  michaelbeil

  Member

  Yes, it should be all good melprotoss.

  Let me know if you need anything else.

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