thegreyman

Hmmm, yep, that’s tricky. It’s where the list items are nested. If you think about what’s happening with a category list where hierarchy is used, you’ve actually got lists of lists… I thought I could see an obvious answer, but when I thought it through it’s actually quite awkward. The whole nested ‘ul’ is a ‘li’ item itself, so of course the whole thing responds to the hover state. One approach would be to give a different colour to the subsequent hover if it’s on a ‘ul ul li’ or something, but this may not be what you wanted. OK, if I get time later I’ll mock something up, see if I can find a way to make it work…

Yep, if you look at what’s happening on the site you mentioned, you can see the rollover appearing as a ‘block’ on the list item, with a second rollover on the link, which is exactly what I was saying. This shouldn’t be too hard to do with CSS (hopefully). If you want some help with that, let me know, I’ll happily give you a hand with the CSS if I can.

Sorry, just read your question again, you can tell I’m tired and not paying attention… If you do want to edit the code for this function, it’s in category-template.php which is found in wp-includes. Again, hth…

Hi yillb,

Without getting involved in editing the php (so that it constructs the list differently) I would suggest, off the top of my head, that you’ll have to put the rollover effect on the list item (i.e. <li>rollover</li>) rather than the href (i.e. <a>link</a>) within it. Does that make sense? I know it’s then kind of a nested rollover, maybe not the effect you wanted, but it’s late at night and I’m not a programmer, so I don’t want to suggest something that screws your php functions. Maybe after some sleep I could get my head around it! Anyway, hth…

HandySolo, interesting, I’m relatively new to WP (does it show? lol) but will look into that approach, thanks.

Thanks, Otto42, I considered this route, although ideally I wanted to control it more myself. However, this may be my only option… ??

Hi MichaelH,

Thanks for the reply. I actually want the different blog design subversions to display exactly the same posts. IOW, I want to run as many design variants as is necessary (!) but only be posting to one database. It’s not multiple blogs, but multiple design iterations of the same blog, running concurrently. Is this possible?

Regards,
TheGreyMan