Howdy! How can I change the color of links to topics? Currently our theme is set to have these as white, but in the forum, they’re lost.

http://www.drc-eng.com/forums

Thanks in advanced for the feedback!

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

a {
    color: #676768;
}

try that

[@drceng Participant 10 years, 5 months ago]

Sorry…I’m a coding novice. Where would I place this Robkk? Thanks!

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

ok this changes the style of all the links on your site so it is not white (i copied googles link color)

a {
    color: #3a84df;
}

a:hover {
    color: #3a84df;
    text:decoration: underline;
}

you add this into anywhere where you can have custom css

in your child themes css stylesheet
the jetpack plugin module custom css
a standalone custom css plugin

[@drceng Participant 10 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks Robkk…but I definitely don’t want to change the color of all links or breadcrumbs in my theme…just for the bbPress forum.

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

well you should change your sitewide hyperlink color because you want people to see links you post.

for topics

a.bbp-topic-permalink  {
color:#222;
} 

for forums

a.bbp-forum-title  {
color:#222;
} 

[@drceng Participant 10 years, 5 months ago]

Howdy Robkk!

After reviewing things a bit more this morning, I see what you’re saying & was able to update the link colors. I was afraid that editing links would also edit the menu color, but then again, I’m a total coding novice. 😉

To make editing the style easy as cake, I add the Simple Custom CSS plugin & popped the edits in there & BAM! Beautiful!

Thanks for you patience & help!

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 5 months ago]

No problem

[@akyboy Participant 10 years, 1 month ago]

HI guys,

I am trying to do the same,…

I have this in my theme css

body {	
	color:#dbd8c4;
	font-size:13px;
	font-family: 'arial';
	position:relative;
}
a {
	color:#dbd8c4;
	text-decoration:none;
	
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration:underline;
	color:#ba110e;
	font-size: 14px;
}

If i change colors even nickname profile link changes too.

I would only like to change formatting of links user post on forums. Is that possible?

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 1 month ago]

@akyboy

list some links you are trying to change in bbpress.

[@akyboy Participant 10 years, 1 month ago]

HI thanks for answer

This is the link to our site:

http://www.cannedbandits.org/the-third-campaign-on-the-global-map/ and this thread have some link in it, as you can see, on hover it goes red but Author link is changed to with same colors.

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 1 month ago]

if you want your bbpress forum links to be different than your sites links use this

#bbpress-forums div.bbp-topic-content a, #bbpress-forums div.bbp-reply-content a {
background: none;
border: none;
display: inline;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: red;
}

[@akyboy Participant 10 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Mr Rob!

Nice when someone can find out newbie question and actually give us an working or partially working examples 🙂
In my case this was fully working example, only thing i changed was color: red; , to color we prefer.

Using your example i also changed color of the links in actual posts: http://www.cannedbandits.org/skirmish-calling-guide/

EDIT, just noticed little problem

Skirmish Calling Guide

Favorites and Subscribe links are changed to that color now.

[@robkk Moderator 10 years, 1 month ago]

well i cant see the links on your site because its only shown if you are logged in.

but i just looked up the css selectors on here.

see if this changes the color.

a.subscription-toggle,
a.favorite-toggle {
color:328c00;
}

if you want to change the color of other links like for example the reply author link use inspect element in your web browser, and try to find the class/id then style it from there.

if sometimes some css doesnt work you would have to probably go add the parent class/id in the css or add !important to the end.

like

li.bbp-header a.favorite-toggle {
color:#328c00;
}

search up on google/youtube on how to use inspect element in your browser

more info here

Step by step guide to setting up a bbPress forum – part 2

bbPress Styling Crib

[@akyboy Participant 10 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks Mr Rob!!!

I really appreciate your help!

!important worked fine

I will bookmark 2 links you gave me for future references