Links not Appearing as Links After Post is Published

I’m wondering if this is not an Andrina bug because the fact that the Categories and tags were not colored. I’m also saying this because I created that test post after I disabled all the editor plugins and the links still did not work.

Why would the code work in the custom css and not in the original place?

That’s what I was worried about – when you just use “a” that means any link on the page. Try this insteac in the custom CSS:

.post_content a,
.post_content a em,
.post_content a strong {
    color: #1b8be0;
    text-decoration: none;
}

I will try to report the problem to InkThemes. Thank you so much for your help on this. I really appreciate it ??

The links in posts and tags are still blue with the code above, but the categories are now black again.

Do I want the tags the same color as the links?

And what if I have a link on a page? Will the code above work there as well?

Okay, this should get the tags out:

.post_content p a,
.post_content p a em,
.post_content p a strong {
    color: #1b8be0;
    text-decoration: none;
}

Which is which color is really up to you. The code above will make any link that is inside a paragraph tag that is inside post content blue. Any other link should stay the black. If you want it to do the same on page, see if this works:

.page-content p a,
.page-content p a em,
.page-content p a strong {
    color: #1b8be0;
    text-decoration: none;
}

I just looked and the link on a page is still not displaying as a link. Also, no links appear blue in the preview. Does this seem like a theme issue to you?

Link color fixed in posts – check
Link color fixed in pages – check
Tags still appear black – check
Categories still appear black – check

Now, all I have to do is to create content and add links normally in the editor and they will work. Thank you very much.

I do think this is a theme problem, although I haven’t seen any other posts reporting it.

Yes, well to be honest, I’ve seen quite a few rather strange CSS “quirks” in InkThemes themes. Generally, with a bit of CSS knowledge they can be fixed…maybe not so elegant, but hopefully gets the job done. Come back if it looks like something is still amiss.

I am a perfectionist…LOL so I would hope they will fix the issues. They just released an update that fixed a significant problem I found in this last release. With the help of this forum, I was able to correct it in the meantime. It was ugly before the fix. I was active in their forum but they decided to stop using it and create another completely separate forum for paid versions only. To be very honest, I love the look of the Andrina Theme, but they have lots of room to improve in the support area. I would gladly donate to them for their work, but I will not upgrade to the ‘pro’ version because the support here is far superior.

I love WordPress so far and definitely love this forum. Although, I am new to HTML and PHP, I do have development experience (mainly backend SQL Server), as well as business analysis, testing and pm of web projects experience. I’m looking forward to the time when I will bring more to the table here in the form of help. I love open source and the community. It’s actually very empowering ?? Thank you!

Lovely sentiments – I certainly agree with you. Sorry you’ve gotten a bit suckered on their support – you’re not the only one, FWIW. I’m actually pretty new here myself and yes, it’s truly an inspiring, wondering project and community. You’re ahead of the game with any experience, and obviously up for learning whatever else you need and want to. Glad you’ll be around :).