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1. visualon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just installed wordpress (I'm new with this program) and just tried to copy a page from another site into post.

   all works fine with the exception that the links that were present on the original page get carried over with the addition of a pointer back to my site.

   my site is: http://www.PhoneBasics.com

   an embedded link that should be something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM get turned into http://www.PhoneBasics.com/wiki.com/gsm

   Is there a parameter that I'm suppose to set somewhere so that the links stay as originally copied??

   many thanks!!

   Bob

2. clarke1866
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Are you missing the http:// part of the link? I'd check that.

3. visualon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Negative... all I'm doing is copying code and pasteing it into the post window...and then somehow between the time I select the code, click copy, and then past it into the window...something modifies the link address to aways append my webaddress as the first part of the link???

   Am trying to figure out how to just let it use the absolute weblink address instead of apparently a relative one?

   thanks.

   Bob

4. petit
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I don't know exactly what you copy and paste into your post editor, but be careful not paste anything but text into the editor.

   Don't ever copy anything else than plain text.

   This is how I succeed in inserting a link to my post:
   1. copy the link from the address field in the browser - it's always plain text.
   2. Select the word(s) you want for anchor text in the post editor.
   3. Click on the link icon or text button in the editor
   4. Paste the url text ( address ) into the link dialogue.

   Note: The WordPress Rich editor has a button for inserting links, while the simple html text editor has a text button.

5. visualon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Petit & Clark1866,

   Thanks for your comments... Ok, if what I'm copying from another document/site have links embedded in what I'm copying... how do I turn things off so that the links do not get carried over? This really loses alot of what I was hopeing to do, but it is a solution!

   WOuld still like to know why (and how) the link address is being modified, and how to go about stopping it from happening.

   thanks,

   bob

6. petit
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   If I copy something from a web page ( or other non textual source ), I always copy to a text editor first ( Notepad is OK ) and from there to the WordPress editor.

   So a link means two copy/paste operations. One for the anchor text and one for the URL.
   That way I'm sure not to get any extraneous formatting codes.

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