Adam DeHaven

The color of the text is typically controlled by your theme’s CSS. In order to change the text color, you’ll need to add some custom CSS to your theme, as shown here:

.perfect-pullquote blockquote p {
    color: #333; /* Replace with your preferred text color */
}

What you’re trying to do isn’t actually valid HTML.

The pull quote shortcode creates a pull quote within a <blockquote> HTML element, which can not go in-between list <li> elements. You could try something similar to the code snippet below to get close to what you’re wanting to accomplish (although if you’re using an ordered list <ol> you will have to manually number the items as I have done below):

<ol style="list-style-type: none;margin: 0 80px 0 50px;">
<li style="margin: 0 0 15px 0;">1. <strong>...</strong>...</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 15px 0;">2. <strong>...</strong>...</li>
</ol>
[pullquote align="full" cite="" link="" color="" class="" size="14"]
[caption id="attachment_1992" align="alignnone" width="700"]<a href=“...><img class="size-full wp-image-1992" src=“..." alt=“..." width="700" height="167" /></a>...[/caption]
[/pullquote]
<ol style="list-style-type: none;margin: 0 80px 0 50px;">
<li style="margin: 0 0 15px 0;">3. <strong>...</strong>...</li>
<li style="margin: 0 0 15px 0;">4. <strong>...</strong>...</li>
</ol>

In order for me to take a look, I’ll need you to post a link to a live page on your site with the Perfect Pullquote shortcode enabled.

No problem!

I just tested changing the alignment and don’t notice any issues. Is it possible your theme has other rules overriding the CSS? Sorry about the trouble, I wish I could help. I just don’t see any errors with the plugin based on your issue.

No problem. If you like the plugin, I’d really appreciate a review here or on my site

According to the HTML on the page, it says you specified align="left". When I inspect the element on the page, and change pullquote-align-left to pullquote-align-right the pull quote is right-aligned and displays properly.

It looks like you have some errors in your HTML. Try the following:

• Make sure all of your paragraph text is actually contained within a <p> tag in your WordPress post. From looking at your article, the paragraph that begins with “Piers Beirne had theorised that the” doesn’t appear to be contained within a <p> tag at all.

I played with your HTML, and once you implement this change, your paragraph text will remain justified. It’s just an issue with your WordPress post and its HTML structure. See here: https://imgur.com/1eLjz1p

If you can post a link to your site with the short code in place, I’ll be happy to take a look.

The pull quotes are not really designed to contain a list element, but…

The problem is your link within the cite attribute. You don’t need to include the <a> tag. Change the first part of your shortcode to what I have here:

[pullquote align="full" cite="The Agile Manifesto" link="https://www.agilemanifesto.org/" color="#7FA9AE" class="" size="19"]

Paste here (within a <code> block) what your entire shortcode looks like. I have a citation with a link here and it works with no issues.

No problem! I’d really appreciate a review, or you can leave me some feedback on the plugin page here: https://adamdehaven.com/blog/2015/05/easily-add-pullquotes-to-your-wordpress-posts-with-my-perfect-pullquotes-plugin/

Version 1.6.2 is fixes issues with the size attribute and is now available for download:

• Fixes issue where user can not decrease font size below 12px
• Fixes issue where size attribute was not recognized if color attribute was not also set

Thanks so much for your feedback!

It looks like there’s some filtering on the size attribute that is preventing it from going into effect. Thanks for the catch! I’ll make the changes and issue the update tonight or tomorrow at the latest. In the meantime, go ahead and update your shortcode with the size you’d like and when the fix rolls out and you update the plugin, you should be good to go!

I’ll post another message here and close your issue when the fix is pushed out. Let me know how it goes.

What’s the URL to your site where you’re using the shortcode? It’s probably something in your theme’s CSS that is overriding the size attribute.