Links Look Like Regular Text.Is it okay to go Bold or Italicize the links?

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Here I am, yet again, with my links not looking clickable!! Steve had changed them for me, which was a very tedious job (thank you again Steve), but now I am back to square one and they just blend in with all of my articles.

Should I make them all Bold or Italicized? I thought I read somewhere that Google really doesn't like that. I made a few links bold and added "Read more..." to my Homepage so they are being clicked on but I still want the links to LOOK clickable to the novice visitor.

I realize I could underline the links, but I don't really like the way it looks. The underline seems so back in the early 90's and I feel it distracts from reading an article.

The links show as blue and purple while I am working on my site, but once published, it's back to plain old black text.

I even installed the color palette plugin but it doesn't show up in my wordpress tool bar.

I really want to work on adding content to my site and little things, like the links, keep my mind from doing so.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Shannon, In the WP editor, you will see the last icon on the right. This is a second line of tools. Click on it and you will find the A for changing text color. Just highlight the text then go to the A and choose a color.

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OMG!!!!!!!

I had to click on it a few times but it finally opened! I have tried before and nothing happened but I did deactivate the plugin I had so maybe that made a difference.

Thank you so much Barry!

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You're very welcome, Shannon. I'm glad I could help.

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Links should turn blue and be underlined...

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They do turn blue as I am working in WordPress, but once I publish a page or post, they turn into regular text but they are still clickable.

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