Change color on links

Hello, dear @tapiwaz !

Thanks for using the ExS theme!

Not sure that we fully understand your goals but could you please try to add the following CSS snippet into your Customizer -> Additional CSS section:

main a {
    color:var(--colorMain);
    text-decoration:underline;
}

main a:hover {
    color:var(--colorDark);
    text-decoration:none;
    
}

Hi. Thanks a lot. That actually works a bit too well. Every link on the forum turns blue which is not what I want. I admit the forum links are a bit cosmetic. But really I believe all other links should be a different color from the main text. Here is another link to another page. You can see there is a link on the word Showmax on sentence 2. But it’s not even visible that there is a link there. It means people will be losing out on the chance for a click (SEO and the bounce rate). So, this probably should be a feature that’s available. Yes, you are right, on the first page that I gave you, the Forum page, the entire thing is cosmetic. But everywhere else, having links of a different color is necessary. I think…

Thank you for your clarification!
You can try to change your CSS snippet like this, for example.

main p a {
    color:var(--colorMain);
    text-decoration:underline;
}

main p a:hover {
    color:var(--colorDark);
    text-decoration:none;
    
}

Actually you can try to change your font color to some lighter value.
Then your dark link will be more visible.
Or you can use underlines to make your links outstanding.

Thank you, we will think how we can implement color options for default links that are located in the content.

Hello once again, dear @tapiwaz !

Please update your theme to recently released 1.8.1 version and check new Customizer options in the color section: Colors -> Content area default links color:

https://i.imgur.com/4KV2RjU.png

Please let us know if this meets your requirements.

Best regards!

Thanks a lot. Cool. The update works. Now the site looks great. In fact, having the links set to a blue color should probably be the default. Most people are used to this. Again, thanks. It’s a relief, the issue was bugging me, which is probably very strange..

Thank you for noting about this problem!
In the original design, text content is grey and links are dark. But truly, if you set your text color to dark value as well then links are not visible.
Hope that this new option will be helpful for other users that have same case as yours.

Once again thanks for your help to making the ExS theme better ??

Best regards!

Hello once again, dear @tapiwaz !

We have recently released a new 1.8.2 theme version with new options for link colors and hover state colors:

https://i.imgur.com/mTk8qtF.png

Please check it.

Best regards!

Greetings once again. Sorry to resuscitate this one so soon. Just wanted to say everything on the frontend is now working as it should. My new challenge is with the backend. When writing an article in the WordPress Dashboard, all the links are the same color as the text. It’s the same issue that was present with the frontend. I wonder if it can easily be solved? Here, the potential impact is not so drastic. I mean, I can live with it. But I do like to keep track of the internal and external links that I have added while writing an article. Thanks in advance and again, sorry for resuscitating this one.

Hello, dear @tapiwaz !

You don’t have to apologize.
This issue should be fixed earlier but we missed it because of our haste to made update.

We have already fixed it and we will release an update with this fix in the next few days! Colors for links and hovered links in the backend will be the same as on the frontend according to the Customizer settings.

Thanks for your bug report and for your patience!

Best regadrs!

Thanks. Another thing that I have noticed is that the top padding for H2 headers is a bit too much. There is too much space between paragraphs as a result. The default appears to be 2em. Now, it’s possible to change that in Typography—->Top Margin in ems for H2. However, I have notice that you inverted the selections. The “Bottom Margin in ems for H2” option is the one that actually changes the Top margin. The reverse is true. In any case, the default probably should not be that big because the spaces between paragraphs become just too big.

Thank you once again!
Truly there was a typo in the function that prints inline styles for headings margins in the header section.
This fix will be also available in the very next theme update!

We cannot change default values because this will break design for hundreds and hundreds existing sites.

If you’re interesting in the PRO version we can provide it to you for free for your help ??

Please contact us here:
https://exsthemewp.com/contact/

Best regards!