Please make sure that you’re adding links following these steps: https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/link-editing/
Thank you for that resource. I have followed these steps but the link isnt showing up at all on the page. On the back end when I edit the page the link shows that it’s there but not when I view the page from a public view.
… the link is not clickable.
… but when I view the actual page the links do not work.
I think you may be mischaracterizing the problem.
I can see both the “soil block maker” Amazon link and the “TEST” link you just created. And they are both 100% clickable.
The real problem (as far as I can tell) is that the linked texts have the same styling as the rest of the text in the post, making them nonrecognizable as links.
For best results, use your page builder — Elementor/PRO — to change the COLOR of linked text in the post content area. I’m not familiar with Elementor and can’t tell you where to go… but you can get help from the plugin’s authors here: https://my.elementor.com/
For a quick-and-not-so-dirty solution (at least to test out my theory), add the following custom CSS in APPEARANCE > CUSTOMIZE > ADDITIONAL CSS:
.elementor-widget-text-editor a {
color: red;
text-decoration: underline;
}
Obviously you want to change the style as desired 😀
Ok, this problem may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to deactivate all plugins and switch to the default Twenty Twenty-Four theme. If the problem goes away, re-activate them one by one to identify the source of the problem.
If you can install plugins, install Health Check. On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to deactivate all plugins and change the theme for you while you’re still logged in without affecting normal visitors to your site.
Im having the opposite problem everything i write with . becomes a link like example.com become an unwanted link
