Dear Template Designer, I Like Bullets and Numbers In My Lists

Dear Template Designer-

I’m really appreciate your free templates. I do have a slight problem though. Many of your templates have wonky issues with lists - the bullets and numbers don’t show up. I understand the template looks better when there are no bullets in the sidebars and headers. But, my readers miss the point if I title a blog post 101 ways to write better and there are no numbers to indicate that there are actually 101 items in the list. Not only that, a list without bullets simply becomes a series of badly formatted sentences and my readers think I’m the one who’s messing up my posts, not you.

I have some background in programming, so ordinarily it’s not hard for me to Google “CSS list bullets won’t show” to figure out how to format my stylesheet to force bullets to show up. However, I have to spend time getting acquainted with your coding style and figure out where exactly you put the settings for lists that show up in posts (vs. sidebar lists, menu lists, footer lists, other lists). Less technical template users will end up frustrated and switch to a template that actually includes bullets and numbers for lists.

Finally, it seems that there’s always some weird global setting that keeps bullets from showing up. For example, in one template, there was global margin setting that had to be removed before bullets would show up in posts. A nice little “remove this for bullets to show up” comment would be very helpful.

It’s not that I can’t figure out how to get bullets to show up. It’s just that spending 2-3 hours doing it is not a good use of my time and makes me less inclined to use your template. So the point, dear template designer, is that lists inside blog posts needs bullets and numbers to make sense. Please stop forcing them out.

Best Regards,
Your Friendly WordPress Template User