Link in code doesn’t match link in post

troper · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 1:22 pm
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Hi everyone!

I have inserted a link in one of my posts, and it appears like this in my code tab: http://www.cdbaby.com/offeringband2

However, when I view my post and hover over the link, my blog address is inserted before the link. When I click on the link, I get a “lost” message.
ellaella · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 1:31 pm
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Hi, troper. What’s the url of your blog so we can see what you’re seeing?
sulz · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 2:08 pm
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in your code tab in the editor it should look like this:

<a href="www.cdbaby.com/offeringband2">title of the link</a>

in your visual tab in the editor it should look like this:

title of the link
troper · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 3:08 pm
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Hi again ellaella!

Here’s the post: http://whereschristmas.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/offering/

Hi sulz!

The code appears this way with the formatting: here.

Thank you for your help!

Todd
troper · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 3:10 pm
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oops…the code didn’t appear the way I pasted it. Let me try that again by putting it in quotes:

“here”
troper · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 3:12 pm
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Okay, I just saw the tip below the reply box. Let me try backticks:

<a href="www.cdbaby.com/offeringband2">here</a>.
timethief · Member · Dec 6, 2007 at 5:50 pm
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Are you aware that wordpress.com blogs are non-commercial blogs? The reasons I’m asking is because your blog has a commercial appearance and you appear to be offering items for sale. We cannot use wordpress.com blogs to drive traffic to 3rd party sites (see section 2, 5th bullet http://wordpress.com/tos/ And, we cannot advertise of wordpress.com blogs http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
HTH
troper · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 5:28 am
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No, I did not realize that. Thank you for helping me understand the rules. After reading the rules you reference, I see that I am allowed one discreet link to Amazon, so I have edited my blog appropriately.

If you were referring to anything else when you say that my blog “has a commercial appearance”, please explain so I can edit as required.

I wouldn’t think the link I am inquiring about (above) violates Section 2 because it’s “…not spam, and does not contain unethical or unwanted commercial content designed to drive traffic to third party sites or boost the search engine rankings of third party sites, or to further unlawful acts (such as phishing) or mislead recipients as to the source of the material (such as spoofing); “

I’m simply trying to provide visitors to my blog with a link to a resource they might be interested in. Am I misunderstanding this?

Is the link being changed because it appears I am violating a rule?

Thank you timetheif!
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 5:37 am
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@troper
I just tried this in my test blog, and it works:

<a href="http://cdbaby.com/offeringband2">here </a>

You had forgotten a space before `‘ and you had also forgotten http:// in the link. In addition, there is now www in cdbaby’s URL.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 5:38 am
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Duh oh! the space missing was before the closing tag.
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 5:45 am
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For reference, this is a useful FAQ to keep handy for those of us who don’t dip into HTML on a regular basis: http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/how-to-write-links/
troper · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 6:39 am
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thesacredpath – thank you! The woman who gave me the link used www instead of http://. Now it works! Why can’t all problems in life have such simple answers?

Merry Christmas!

Todd
troper · Member · Dec 7, 2007 at 6:42 am
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thesacredpath – thank you for the link also. I always write my posts in LiveWriter and publish from there because it’s so stupid-easy. But I will refer to how-to-write-links next time I get in trouble.

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