Hi there,
Obviously I can’t say how your old code became your new code, but I assume you’re wanting to simply link to a file that you uploaded to your Media?
If that’s the case, you’re on the right track.
Here’s a basic overview of how Links (anchor tags) work and how to “markup” your content to insert a link.
Your new code is missing the attribute “href” which uses the url to the file you want to link to.
The old code, while working is rather awkward as it has some extra Javascript code that I am sure is unnessary, aas well as the “Anchor Text” (the words you want your link placed on) is currently “here,fcb”, which would seem to be not intentional. There’s also some random <fcb> tag in there.
To simplify your code you’d want something like this:
<a href="http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx">Click here for the file</a>
That’s if you’re editing in the Text editor of WordPress.
Using the visual editor, you can select any words you want to place the link onto, and
paste in the URL of the file you want to link to.
http://gowd.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/NH-Basic-2CRev.docx
If you don’t know the URL of the file, go to your media manager directly or by clicking the Add Media button on the post edit screen, find the file you want to link to, select it, and look for the field labeled “URL”. Select the entire string in that field box because that’s the direct URL to your file. You can now use that to paste into the URL field when adding a link, or within the href attribute when editing code.
Cheers,
Mike
