"Use Left/Right Arrow keys to" – A Javascript Malfunction On My Blog?
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This may be caused by the recent WordPress.com site updates, I don’t know…
I’m trying to figure out why the partial phrase
“Use Left/Right Arrow keys to”
…is showing up all over my blog. It is happening with all the browsers I’ve tried to view my blog with (IE 11 and Chrome).
It appears like tiny links all over the place, while “javascript:void(0);” is the message I get at the bottom of my browser when I scroll a mouse over them.
Clicking on them does nothing.
As far as I’ve seen, this is not happening on the pages, nor when you open an individual post. It looks to just be happening on the blogs main index page, and in my “links” (text box, actually) widgets I have on the side, and also in the category index.
This simply started out of the blue, within the last 48 hours or so. I’ve been presuming it was some oversight or glitch, caused by changes going on with this service.
When the posts were originally made, they looked just fine…Then, suddenly, this started happening.
Is anyone aware of this type of problem, and if so…will this be fixed soon?
Thank you!
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That is strange. Will you provide screenshots for Staff please? I’ll tag this thread for their attention. You can use http://snag.gy/ to share screenshots and link to them here. If you use the WordPress.com guide screenshots you can and upload it to your Media Library, and return to this thread to provide the file name so Staff can examine it.
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Okay…
Here is a sample from each of the three posts this is showing up in.
Next is a capture of the sidebar. This one seems to be moving around. First, it was at one spot on my “click here first” graphic, then it moved up a bit. Not it is directly between that and my “live chat” graphic. Briefly, it seems to have disappeared.
I’ve made a few new posts, and they don’t look to be affected by this as of yet.
I also opened up the posts in the editor, and did a search for the mysterious text showing up in the published versions (on the blog index), and it is not there.
Oh, by the way…I could not get that image hosting website to work. I installed java, and it still refused to work. Found an alternative, instead.
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Hi there,
Sorry about that! It looks like a change to the core WordPress audio player made this text appear. (That text is meant to help people who are visually impaired use the audio player on your site, but it isn’t meant to be visible there.)
Our team is aware of the issue, so we’ll investigate that and get it fixed for you. I’ll let you know when I get an update about it. Thanks for reporting this!
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Hi,
I’m having the same issue – it’s a pretty big deal as I work in radio, and wordpress audio codes are all over my blog. Discovered this issue today as I prepared to send my site off to a potential employer. Please fix ASAP. -
Here’s the page on my site that best illustrates the problem – http://garethstack.com/radio
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Thank you!
I believe it is no longer showing up anywhere on my blog. Though I saw one incident within the last 24 hours, I see it nowhere at present.
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Hi! Our team launched a fix for this today, so you won’t see that text showing up on your blog anymore. Please let me know if I can do anything more to help. :)
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