Anchor points keep disappearing
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My anchor points (for page jumps) keep disappearing. I created a page http://morewarmth.wordpress.com/insurance/ with a table of contents at the top, and lots of anchor points to jump to in the body. I tested these extensively, and they worked fine. Today, I realized they were no longer working. I edited the page in “text mode” and all the anchor points were gone. I added two back in, including at the top. I did an “Update”, looked, and the anchor points were gone. What’s going on? Thanks!
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I can now easily reproduce this problem: In WordPress.com, I edit the page http://morewarmth.wordpress.com/insurance/
I switch to “Text” mode and, at the beginning of the page, enter this:
I switch to “Visual” mode, then immediately switch back to “Text” mode. The new text has disappeared.
What am I doing wrong? How can I get my anchor points back in the page, and keep them there? Thanks!
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[Great, the text even disappears in this forum. OK, I’ll that again, using the backtick character.]
I can now easily reproduce this problem: In WordPress.com, I edit the page http://morewarmth.wordpress.com/insurance/
I switch to “Text” mode and, at the beginning of the page, enter this:
<a name="top"></a>I switch to “Visual” mode, then immediately switch back to “Text” mode. The new text has disappeared.
What am I doing wrong? How can I get my anchor points back in the page, and keep them there? Thanks!
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I have the exact same problem! I hope someone posts a solution. I’m searching online as well.
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I am having the exact same problem:
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-and-existing-anchor-points-keep-disappearingSwitching to the Visual editor strips the “name” attribute from the
<a>HTML tag. So<a name="jumphere">Here</a>becomes<a>Here</a>.I think I’ve found the solution. The “name” attribute is not supported in HTML 5. Instead of “name” use the “id” attributes. It’s a pity that WordPress HTML validation code just removed “name” instead of replacing it with “id”.
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nleviatan: Changing from “name” to “id” fixed everything! Thanks so much!
This has been a frustrating experience with WordPress. “name” worked until recently. Apparently, they changed to “id” and silently broke a bunch of pages. As you point out, they could easily have changed “name” to “id” automatically.
Even worse, the online documentation, last updated in August 2012, still gives the wrong information (tells you to use “name”)!:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/
At the least, the documentation should be updated.
Thanks again!
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Dear everybody, see also the discussion in the topic: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-and-existing-anchor-points-keep-disappearing
I think it is a new WP bug or a secret change of algorithms. It seems that many of us has this problem nowadays in 4 new topics about anchors and page jumps. -
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Howdy all,
Sorry about this – we are aware of the issue, and are investigating it. We didn’t deprecate anything, it’s just a bug. I’ll update this thread once I know anything further.
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I am having the same problem using the “name” attribute. After reading this discussion, I thought using “id” would solve the problem, but that is not working for me, either. When I switch to visual from text, WP is wiping out even my code.
Please help! We use this feature a lot, and several of our pages don’t make sense without anchors!
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I suggest you read what Staff said immediately above your own post into this thread.
I’ll update this thread once I know anything further. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/anchor-points-keep-disappearing?replies=14#post-1040200
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I understand very little about html, have always used Panos’s tips for “jumps” to other pts. in a post by copying his code verbatim.
Now I have been banging my head in frustration for two days or more at having to redo all my “jumps” before finally figuring out that they break every time I edit a post.It all works again after I laboriously reinstall the destination html (still using the same code panos provided)—until the next time I do an edit. What’s weird is it’s only the jumps within a post that break. Jumps from one post to a section in another post still work even after I edit…
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