Underlining Page Title Links in Default WP2 Theme

  • Well, I’ve been successful at editing some of the theme elements by adding stuff and deleting stuff. But I can’t quite figure this one out on my own.

    I’m using the standard WP2 theme on my blog at:
    https://pozadzides.com/john/blog/

    My “beta testers” have reported that “stuff is missing” when they go look through the Archives or Category listings. Actually this is because it’s only displaying summaries there instead of the full articles. They don’t notice that the title of the post is a link because it’s black and not underlined like a normal link.

    What I’d like to do is two things:

    1) Change the Titles to Blue if they have not been visited, or Purple after they have been visited.
    2) Put small text below the “Archive for…” that reads “Select any post title to read complete post.”

    If someone could tell me how to accomplish these I would much appreciate it.

    John

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  • Thread Starter jpozadzides

    (@jpozadzides)

    I answered my first question. I found the solution to be entirely within the style.css sheet.

    I got my Post title links to all be blue by doing the following:

    Edit style.css as follows:
    Change:
    —————————–
    a, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover {
    color: #06c;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    —————————–
    To:
    —————————–
    a, h2 a, h3 a {
    color: #06c;
    text-decoration: none;
    }
    —————————–
    In other words, remove the “:hover” from h2 and h3. Formerly this told the system to turn the links blue only when the mouse was hovering over them. By removing them, they turn blue permanently.

    Then change:
    —————————–
    h2, h2 a, h2 a:visited, h3, h3 a, h3 a:visited {
    color: #333;
    }
    —————————–
    to
    —————————–
    h2, h3 {
    color: #333;
    }
    —————————–
    In other words, remove everything from the first line except “h2, h3”. Formerly this was changing all of the visited Post’s title pages black. After editing only the Heading level 2 & 3s that are not links will be black.

    Finally add the following anywhere within the sheet:
    —————————–
    a, h2 a:visited, h3 a:visited {
    color: maroon}
    —————————–
    This turns any visited link maroon.

    Now, if someone could just help me with how to do my original #2 it would be great.

    John

    Greetings,

    I am using the default theme in WP2 and all I want to do is change the default color of the links in the sidebar.

    I just spent a couple of hours searcing here and playing with the Css and nothing to seemed to work.

    I checked your site out John and was wondering what you did to make the sidebar links red by default.

    Regards,
    Alex Rosmondo

    Sorry, I mis-stated the version. The correct version is: v1.5

    Alex

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