Wp-calypso: Seedlet: Custom link colors not rendered on frontend

[sirreal]

Steps to reproduce

1. Activate Seedlet on a Simple site
2. Open the block editor and write a paragraph with a link.
3. From the block controls, expand color settings and change the link color.
4. Publish the post and view it on the site (example post: paqfU8-tn-p2)
5. The link color will not be rendered on the frontent.

Note that custom background and text colors (rendered as background-color and color in a style attribute) are respected. The custom link color is not.

cc: @jeffikus

What I expected

Render the link color.

What happened instead

The link color is not respected.

Screenshot / Video

It _says_ "green" but the link _should be #ff00ff "pink".

Editor

Frontend

Context / Source

[nosolosw]

I could repro this issue in a dotorg setup with an author role, see https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/25151 In dotcom, I experienced this by testing with an admin role.

[nosolosw]

@sirreal @scruffian Got a potential fix for this at https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/25411 Note, however, what I reported above: it looks like dotcom may be doing additional things to what core does, so it's worth looking into that separately.

[nosolosw]

Ah, it'd be great if you have a way to report whether the fix works for dotcom as it is.

[WunderBart]

Ah, it'd be great if you have a way to report whether the fix works for dotcom as it is

@nosolosw, I installed the build from https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/25411 in D50012-code & tested in on my side but it doesn't seem like this patch alone fixes the issue:

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[WunderBart]

@nosolosw has there been any follow-up regarding this issue on dotcom? This seems to be still happening.

[nosolosw]

I can't speak for dotcom but, for core, we're going to revisit how to fix this (see comment).

[sirreal]

has there been any follow-up regarding this issue on dotcom? This seems to be still happening.

Context: There was a Seedlet theme update, which is why we revisited 🙂

[WunderBart]

Let's revisit this when 9.2 lands.

[andrewserong]

Just confirming that this is still an issue in wpcom with Seedlet theme activated.

In the editor, with a custom link color set (to red):

In the front end: