Jump Links (anchors)

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:50 am

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  Over the last few days jump links (anchors) seem not to work properly at my end. When writing in the code for example after I click the Save button, the disappears. Please, help. Thanks.
  Blog url: http://tzvetkova.wordpress.com/

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:52 am

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:52 am

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 11:53 am

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  Unfortunately pasting the code here also disappars.

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  justpi · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 1:40 pm

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  a) To display code correctly here, you need to enclose it in backticks (see the note on “Allowed markup”).
  b) For correct jump link code see here:

  Links to specific points on a page

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 2:24 pm

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  It seems still impossible to have in the code <a name="a1">Text</a>. The TEXT editor mode just erases it after switching to Visual mode.

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  justpi · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 2:29 pm

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  Yes it does.

  For correct jump link code see here:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/links-to-specific-points-on-a-page/

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 26, 2012 at 2:42 pm

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  Thanks, Justpi – this works.
  The advise here seems not to work in my case – http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/#jumping-to-an-anchor-on-another-page-or-post

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  justpi · Member · Oct 27, 2012 at 3:00 am

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  You’re welcome.
  Yes, that advice is outdated.

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 27, 2012 at 12:34 pm

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  Do you have any idea if pages alraedy done on WordPress with anchors <a name="a1">Text</a> have to be re-done or would the <a id="a1">Text</a>happen automatically at some point. I am asking, as on one WordPress site I did with 6 books (The Table of Contents and the Chapters) that would be a lot of work to be done manually if it does not happen automatically. Please, advise.

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  justpi · Member · Oct 27, 2012 at 3:34 pm

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  I’ve got lots of those myself in my blogs.
  a) The name attribute is still working; it will be deleted if you edit the pages (or even if you open the editor and simply switch from Text to Visual).
  b) No, the code won’t be corrected for you.
  c) It wouldn’t be a lot of work to correct it manually: you can highlight all in the Text editor, copypaste into a simple text file, use the find-and-replace function to change all instances of a name to a id at once, copypaste result back into Text editor.

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  tzvetkova · Member · Oct 28, 2012 at 2:17 pm

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  Thanks a lot.
  a. yes, this is how I discovered something was going wrong – opening an exiting page and the anchors after closing the page disppeared.
  b. ok, will do it myself.
  c. I was thinking of doing the same, but was not quite sure this is how it should be done. Thanks for advising so.
  Have a great day! And thanks again!