Featured Links

  • I have started using the Featured Link feature of this plugin. I ticked a particular link to feature it and nothing changed on the page. Then I found the setting to list Featured links above the other links and ticked that box. Now my link is listed at the top but there’s no special highlighting or coding to make it stand out.

    So I searched and found one particular person looking for the same thing. That person tried adding css to the class a.track_this_link.featured. According to the post, that worked.

    So I’ve added the following code:

    a.track_this_link.featured {

    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 16px;

    }

    Tried it both in style.css in my theme and in stylesheettemplate.css for the plugin. I actually also tried several variations and nothing seems to change.

    Funny a while back I talked to you about changing the logo size of the links to a uniform size and finally figured it out, but I can’t find that .resize class anywhere in either of these stylesheets and can’t remember where in the world I made that change to get it to work.

    I also emptied the cache a bunch of times in W3 Total Cache. Still nothing…

    In case it helps at all to ring any bells, the link to that other post is here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/css-for-thumbnailsfavicons?replies=11

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/link-library/

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  • Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    The resize class was something that you had added yourself in the link libray sub-field configuration table.

    Do you have a link that I could see where you are trying to style your featured links?

    Thread Starter ibloomdrop

    (@ibloomdrop)

    Here’s the link: https://newparadigmastrology.com/links

    It’s hard telling how I left the CSS code. I tried several things. You can see I featured the link for New Earth Nation but there’s nothing to make it stand out. I’d like it really to be bold with a big larger font maybe. Even a box around it would be great. Something to distinguish that it’s featured.

    Thanks in advance!

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    There was a bug. There was a space missing in the output between track_this_link and featured. Please update once you see the new version appear and see if the original styling code works. If it does not, let me know and I will take a look again.

    Thread Starter ibloomdrop

    (@ibloomdrop)

    Hi Yannick,
    Updated the plugin, cleared my cache and the link is featured but still not bold or standing out in any way. By your above comment of ‘see if the original styling code works’ did you mean that you have coded something in already and I don’t need to worry about changing any CSS?

    If that’s the case, I can’t see any changes, however I know browser cache sometimes gets weird. I did check it on Firefox too, which I rarely use, and no styling there either.

    You should still be able to use the above link to check the page. Let me know if my code is wonky still from all the things I tried in my CSS. May have forgotten to remove some of them.

    Thanks for checking this for me! We’d like to really start promoting some of our links.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    Sorry for the lack of response. WordCamp Montreal used up all of my time over the week-end. I am no longer seeing any featured links on your site. Did you remove that option from all links?

    Yannick

    Thread Starter ibloomdrop

    (@ibloomdrop)

    I’ve just put back that link as featured. Actually, this seems to be another problem/potential bug that I’ve been experiencing. Each time I make any changes to the site, I seem to have to go back and select that link as Featured. I’ve marked it featured at least a half dozen times since we started this conversation.

    Since we last spoke, I encountered other problems and had to change the theme. This is the basic Twenty Fourteen theme and the Featured Link is still not highlighted, bolded or standing out in any way other than listed at the top.

    Thanks for your time.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    You can style this link with a stylesheet entry as simple as:

    .linklist .featured {
    background-color: #ccc;
    }

    Now, for losing the featured property, I will investigate a bit further. have you modified and re-saved any of your links before seeing their featured box unchecked?

    Thread Starter ibloomdrop

    (@ibloomdrop)

    Hi yes! Sorry thought I responded to this already. It seems to happen when I rerun the favicon generation. That removes the featured link from what I can see.

    Plugin Author Yannick Lefebvre

    (@jackdewey)

    Thanks for figuring out where the issue lied. I would have searched for a long time before figuring this one out. I have corrected it and just pushed a new version of the plugin to the repository. Please update and confirm that you are no longer losing the featured setting on your link.

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