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  ivankinsman · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 8:13 am

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  Hello,
  I am including http links on my free domain to different newspaper articles – some link, some do not. If I upgrade to ‘Personal’, will all these links work?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 12:34 pm

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  some link, some do not. If I upgrade to ‘Personal’, will all these links work?

  Hi there,

  Are there links on your site that don’t work?

  If there are, could you please some some examples?

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 12:39 pm

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  Instructions for adding links can be found in the documentation below:

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

  It looks like you’ve printed URL addresses in several posts, but haven’t made them links. An upgrade is not required to fix those.

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  ivankinsman · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 12:44 pm

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  OK< I will take a look – here are some examples

  Summary: Controversial pesticides can decimate honey bees, large study finds (06.2017)

  Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/controversial-pesticides-can-decimate-honey-bees-large-study-finds

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  Summary: High pesticide risk to honey bees despite low focal crop pollen collection during pollination of a mass blooming crop (04.2017)

  Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46554

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  Summary: How toxic pesticides in ‘insect-friendly’ plants sold in garden centres could be killing endangered bees (06.2017)

  Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4501520/Insect-friendly-plants-laced-poisoning-pesticides.html

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  Summary: Home Depot Looks to Limit Pesticides to Help Honeybees

  Link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/home-depot-looks-to-limit-pesticides-to-help-honeybees/

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 12:54 pm

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  Thanks for the examples.

  You’ll need to select the URLs in posts like this, then follow the steps in he documentation to turn them into links.

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  ivankinsman · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 1:44 pm

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  Thanks, Gary, that did the trick.
  Out of interest what plan are you on – which one do you think is the best. I am not sure whether to upgrade or not…
  Best,
  Ivan

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Jul 7, 2017 at 1:59 pm

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  You’re welcome :)

  I have one WordPress.com site on the free plan; I didn’t feel like the site needed any upgrades – at least for what I wanted to do.

  Which plan is “best” really depends on your needs.