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1. blogshoppe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I have installed the most recent version of Sideposts and have it working here:

   http://www.rvawc.org

   But, there is a link in that post (e-mail) and it doesn't show up when I choose to show the Post Excerpt. If I show the whole post, it does. Is this a bug?

   Thanks!

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sideposts/

2. Txanny
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This is the expected behavior. WordPress excerpts are text plain. They don't show links, images or any other HTML element, just plain text.

   That's by WordPress design. When you use excerpts anywhere in WordPress, you get only plain clean text. Same when using excerpts with SidePosts.

3. blogshoppe
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Wow, very interesting! In all the things I've done with WordPress, I've never noticed this...good to know.

   Thank you for your fast response and for a great plugin!

4. cbiagi
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I came here with the same question. However I'm using normal the_excerpt, not the Sideposts plugin. Is there a simple way to override the standard WP behavior so that links will work in an excerpt? I'm sure WP has their reasons for doing it like this, but it seems that having text in an excerpt that says 'Click here' that isn't actually clickable would confuse the user.

5. Txanny
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Have to write your own plugin to create the excerpts on a different way ;)
   Or just write the excerpt without links on the excerpt box when posting.

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