[Jason]

Hello,

I’m using the Buddypress default theme and I’d like to change the link color. I’ve been looking through the CSS file and I can’t seem to find it. Does anyone know where I can find it?

Thanks.

[r-a-y]

In your child theme’s stylesheet, add this:
a {color:red !important;}

If you made a copy of the bp-default stylesheets in your child theme, that rule would be located in /_inc/css/default.css.

What’s all this talk about child themes? Read up here:
https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/building-a-buddypress-child-theme/

[Jason]

I was doing some research and wouldn’t just changing these two in the style.css do the trick?

a, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover {
color: #336699;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:hover {
color: #147;
text-decoration: underline;
}

[Jason]

It didn’t work for me, at least not when I tried it, but I was wondering why modifying that wouldn’t do it?

[Hugo Ashmore]

It ought to. Specificity is almost likely the culprit.

All rulesets are afforded a ‘number’ that represents their ‘Weight’ or specificity; the specificness of that rules properties over another, it’s calculated from the selectors which have various numbers assigned them.

To test try adding in antecedent selectors – ancestors or parents of the selector being styled until you find control, so :

body#bp-default a , body#bp-default #container h2 a:hover

Play around, add further selectors to the mix to increase the weight if necessary, see if that gives you control, then you will know what the issue is

[Jason]

Thanks for the response. I’ve been trying and I still can’t figure this out. I can’t find the color code anywhere in the code and I also tried adding some code and it didn’t work.

[Jason]

I solved it. I forgot that the css for the buddypress default theme is not in the themes folder. It’s in the plugins folder like @r-a-y said.