New and existing anchor points keep disappearing
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I believe there is a new bug with page jumps. Every anchor point I add disappears once I switch back to the Visual Editor or save a draft.
All of my previously created anchor points are also gone.By comparing Post Revision I traced the page anchor deletion to between October 5 and October 11.
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I think I’ve found the solution. The “name” attribute is not supported in HTML 5. Instead of “name” use the “id” attributes. It’s a pity that WordPress HTML validation code just removed “name” instead of replacing it with “id”.
Use<a id="jumphere">Here</a>instead of<a name="jumphere">Here</a> -
Here (on WP support page: http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/) they advise the name and not id:
And it had worked for some month until now! I think it is a bug or they has changed the algorithm without any message to users. -
Hm, “code” tag doesn’t work also? I try with the backtick:
<a name="top"></a>
If it will be wrong, I give up. -
Dear timethief, that page says also the name tag but not id. I can say again: there is a WP bug or sudden and secret change here about :-)
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evitae: name worked until a few days ago. Now, only the id attribute works.
I think that WordPress changed their HTML validation algorithm to comply with HTML 5, broke a bunch of pages in the process without informing the user and forgot (or didn’t get around) to update the online documentation (last modified in August 2, 2012). -
nleviatan, thanx! If you knew that how much work was in some of my recent pages to insert anchors and jumps…! To replace all the nameswith idswould be also a pretty much work. And joyful. I kiss the WP! Thanx to god that I has tried and applied the page anchors and jumps not long ago.
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So do I have to reinsert hundreds of anchors? The pages still jump even though the code disappeared. I just write it differently from now on? I find it disconcerting that the code is just gone, even if it does still work.
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hebrews110: In existing posts the name attribute disappeared (and page jumps stopped working) only after updating a post. As long as you don’t edit existing posts everything should be fine.
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I edit those pages weekly. So I have to redo a thousand anchors–literally. This isn’t going to be fixed any other way?
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I need more help with this. My “name” anchors didn’t have the words I was jumping to within the tag. I just pasted them above the place it was to jump to. What is the code so I can do that with the id tag? It would be way too much effort to insert it around some text. I have 700 and some to change! I just want to paste them in, change the number and move on.
Also, am I going to have to change anything with the links that go to the anchors?
Thanks for your help. I really need it.
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The code for name and id is the same. After replacing “name” with “id” your links and page jumps should work exactly as before.
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But all of my code is gone, I can’t just replace it. What is the code to use without any of the text inside of it?
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