Links keep disappearing
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Why do I keep having link url’s randomly disappear when I click “update” on a post? I list a lot of references, all linked, at the bottom of my posts, and I keep having one or more links randomly disappear when I update it. It’s really annoying – sometimes I have to edit the page three or four times before the link will stay there, and right now I can’t get one link to stay at all. What gives? Why isn’t the HTML I write before I press “update” the same as the HTML that’s there after I press “update” when I do these links?
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Specifically, this link is currently disappearing every time I try to use it on any page:
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Okay, it disappeared there too….look at this code and just pretend that it isn’t missing brackets at the beginning and end
a title=”The Turtles of Thailand, by Wirot Nutaphand” href=”http://www.amazon.com/turtles-Thailand-Wirot-Nutaphand/dp/B0006E7RUG” target=”_blank”> The Turtles of Thailand</a
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It’s a link to an amazon page.
This isn’t the only link that’s done that – many many other links have disappeared when I edited their pages too. This is the only link that appears to be doing it over and over again though. With all the other links, I just had to redo the HTML and it would work. It’s really annoying to have to redo the HTML over again though just because I hit “update” on the page.
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I suggest you read this link carefully before going any further:
http://en.wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/This being said, when staff detects a link that violates their policy, they usually replace it automatically with the link above. This does not appear to be the case here.
If you have any doubt about whether you should be allowed to insert the link or not, contact staff at support@wordpress.com
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Thank you – that was a good guess. However, my blog doesn’t violate any of their standards. It’s a field guide to reptiles and amphibians in Bangkok – I reference the sources I use, and I usually use the Amazon entry as the link when referencing books. That’s the only reason I have an Amazon link there – I’ve never sold anything through Amazon and am certainly not trying to sell books here. And, like you say, wordpress didn’t replace the link with that above link and they’ve never replaced any of my links with that.
Any other guesses?
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I should clarify – MY blog is a field guide to reptiles and amphibians in Bangkok. The link it won’t like me type is an out-of-print turtles book that I’ve never owned and never sold. My only relationship with the book is that I took notes from it in a library once and used it as a source for my field guide entries. I’m really not understanding why wordpress doesn’t like the link. I have emailed support though.
I should also be clear – many of the other links that have disappeared from my site have been news article links, scientific papers, other online field guides, etc. There’s been no clear pattern in what links get deleted, except that internal links (to other pages and posts on my own blog) don’t seem to ever get deleted.
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Ugh….in today’s post, wordpress randomly deleted a Wikipedia link, a link to the Asian Turtle Conservation Network, a link to ARKive, a link to the Buddhist Merit-making Turtle Release checklist, and that same Amazon link it deletes every time. However, there are two other Amazon links that it lets stay. What gives?
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As a first step, could you try clearing your browser’s cache and cookies?
http://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/You might also want to check these instructions:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/Don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need anymore help.
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Thank you. For some reason wordpress finally started letting me enter the link (exact same code) about halfway through the day on Saturday. No clue what changed – I went back and entered it into the four pages that I needed to, and it worked for all four.
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It’s doing it again!
Ugh….this is frustrating. Yesterday I made a post with eight non-internal links. Five of the eight had some part of the HTML disappear when I posted so that the links didn’t work. I had to re-copy and paste the code and re-link three times before it finally worked. Today I made another post with 8 external links. First time through, 5 failed to work. Second time through, 4 failed to work. What is going on? If the links just didn’t work, it would be frustrating enough…but the fact that my actual text disappears when I “update” is really, really frustrating. What gives?
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My blog is bangkokherps.wordpress.com
Here’s an example – I write this:
References:
Asian Turtle Conservation Network: Amyda cartilaginea
Ecology Asia: Asiatic Soft-shell Turtle
Turtles of the World: Amyda cartilaginea
IUCN Red List: Amyda cartilaginea
Arkive: Southeast Asian Soft Terrapin
Thailand Office of Environmental Planning and Policy: A Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles in Thailand
A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia
The Turtles of ThailandAnd after I hit “update” to enter the post, it comes out looking like this:
References:
Asian Turtle Conservation Network: Amyda cartilaginea
Ecology Asia: Asiatic Soft-shell Turtle
Turtles of the World: Amyda cartilaginea
IUCN Red List: Amyda cartilaginea
Arkive: Southeast Asian Soft Terrapin
Thailand Office of Environmental Planning and Policy: A Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles in Thailand
A Photographic Guide to Snakes and Other Reptiles of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand
A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia
The Turtles of Thailand -
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“What gives?”
Link URLs get stripped out if you have omitted any of the quotation marks that should be there or if you’ve used curly instead of straight ones.
Look at your initial example again:
a title=”The Turtles of Thailand, by Wirot Nutaphand” href=”http://www.amazon.com/turtles-Thailand-Wirot-Nutaphand/dp/B0006E7RUG” target=”_blank”> The Turtles of Thailand
Correct the quotation mark after Nutaphand and the link won’t disappear. -
Thank you for that. I’m sure the issue is “curly” quotation marks vs. “straight” quotation marks. I can fix that from now on, though it’ll be really annoying that I can’t copy that text from my word processing program the same way anymore.
So my new question is…why? Why the heck does there have to be any function where URL’s get stripped out? What possible utility is there in having your text disappear when you have the wrong quotation mark? Why can’t it just leave in text it doesn’t recognize?
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when you have the wrong quotation mark?
Computers are essentially stupid.
They only do what you tell them to do. And curly quotation marks have a specific meaning. Html codes don’t make intuitive choices about what you type. They are so specific (and stupid) as not to be able to understand what you “intend.” You have to put in the precise code or symbol so that they will perform as you expect.
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You don’t have to speak to me like I’m 5 or 65. What is the specific meaning of “curly quotation marks” that leads to text being deleted? Why should any symbols you type into HTML delete other text that you have typed? What possible utility is there in that?
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Goodness! I’m between 5 and 65.
As Panos said above:
Link URLs get stripped out if you have omitted any of the quotation marks that should be there or if you’ve used curly instead of straight ones.
The left and right curly quotation marks are text formatting and not html code symbols. Of course your links won’t work if you use them. They don’t make sense: they are not commands.
As for the possible utility of that? You have to use the precise language.
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“links won’t work” is not the same as “text is stripped out”. The first part makes sense to me. The second part does not.
Having to use the precise language makes sense, though it’s annoying that my word program decides to apply formatting to the quotation marks that cause them to fail to translate to quotation marks on WordPress, even though I’m using the same keyboard button both times. But that can’t be helped. My question is, rather than simply not working, why is all that text stripped out? If I type certain characters into WordPress, I expect it to work if I do it right, and not work if I do it wrong. What I don’t expect is for WordPress to delete significant portions of what I typed, even the parts that are just normal text and aren’t themselves any sort of inappropriate text formatting. That’s the action that can’t possibly have utility, as far as I can imagine.
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