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1. kerchmcc
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I want to use anchors to cross link between two posts.

   For example, there is a post containing a list of speakers' bios.
   I want to link each to their specific talk on the post of list of topics.
   However: when I use the regular anchor links so:

   <a href="post#anchor">text</a>

   WP jumps to the right page but changes the URL to this:

   /post/#anchor

   Is there any way to make the post#anchor go to the right page in the linked to page?

   Thanks for the help.
   kerch

2. carebbean
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   kerchmmc

   Have you received a resolve to this quiery?

   I am trying to do the same thing:
   I have many posts which are authored by different writers. I also have created a page listing all of those author's bios alphabetically. I want to have a link from the author's name on the post go directly to that authors bio on the author page.

   I saw your original post to a forum asking for help about that:
   in front of the author's name on the post page closed with . Then on the author page in front of the author's name (a name="#X"> closed with

   Is that correct? Does the # sign need to proceed the number I select?

   Thanks so much

   Blessings

3. kerchmcc
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Yea, carebbean,

   I didn't have any luck making it work directly. The anchors work fine inside the post.. but not from post to post.

   Ultimately, I put a table of contents at the top of the bio page with links to the anchors on that page. It's not as clean as I would have liked, but it works.
   Here's a sample.

4. jjshih
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   I am going to resurrect this thread since I would like to see a resolution. Seems like it would be pretty easy to link to an anchor from another post but I can't get it to work. Does anyone have any more suggestions? Thanks for your time.

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