Hello, if someone can help me figure out how to change the bbpress blockquote text color I would appreciate it. Currently it is yellow (see attachment)…

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

put this in the custom css part of your theme

blockquote {
	color: blue;
}

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Thank you for the response. I added the custom css as you suggested, but text is still yellow.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

would need a link to an example on your site

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Here’s the link to the test blockquote…

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[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

suspect it requires me to be logged in ?

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

I even installed the plugin SiteOrigin CSS to try and change the blockquote, but still no luck, see code below…

blockquote p {
color: blue;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #e6e6e6;
background-color: #000000;
}

It seems the code for the blockquote is being over ridden somewhere.

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

oh yes, I created a login for you…

RobinW

@Robin-W

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Well, you should be able to view the forum without being logged in.

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

My workaround was to add the black background so the yellow text is visible.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

you link comes up with ‘can’t reach that page’ – even when I just try the site https://dungeonlair.com/

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Well that’s strange, but you can get to the site ok right?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

nope, does the link in my post above work for you ?

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

It does

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

So Robin, did you create the bbp style pack plugin?

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

my firewall software doesn’t like your site

try

#bbpress-forums blockquote {
	color: blue !important;
}

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Very strange… so I tried adding the code you suggested in the css section of my word press theme, and it didn’t work.

So I made a change to the css code in SiteOrigin css and added “!important” and that worked, see code below…

blockquote p {
color: blue !important;
border-width: 1px;
border-style: solid;
border-color: #e6e6e6;
background-color: #000000;
}

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

so, why did adding “!important” allow the css to work?

Also, thank you for your help, I really appreciate it.

[@robin-w Moderator 4 years, 5 months ago]

ok, !important stops later css overwriting it, so it was a load order issue.
and yes style pack is my plugin 🙂

[@dungeonlair Participant 4 years, 5 months ago]

Nice job Robin, you’re awesome!