Links insert themselves random places during posting…

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    jimtekguy · Member ·

    Ubuntu 20.04; Braver browser; WP 5.7.1

    Recently, I’ve been seeing much more strangeness when I’m creating a post. What happens is that when I copy a string of text and move it to a different place in the body of text, WP will unbidden, place some part of that copy lower down in the body of the post. Usually under a picture. And it will make that a link.

    Similar things have occurred for years now as regards to the line right below a picture ‘auto-set’ as a link (something I NEVER want) but recently it’s change to this ‘insert clickable portions of that text you just copy & pasted in random places’.

    I’ve even found that it’s moved pictures around and/or just deleted them.

    I has become a struggle to write a post lately and I have to repeatedly edit out this weirdness.

    Is there a cure? Was it caused by a recent update? And can I back away from it?

    Thanks.

    PS I’ve been writing this blog since ’04, but I’m no WP expert…just have lots of experience with it.

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

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but using the open source WordPress.org software at another hosting provider. We’re only able to help with sites hosted on our servers at WordPress.com.

    Please ask the WordPress.org community for advice instead. They provide support for the version of WordPress you’re using:

    https://wordpress.org/support/forums

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