Title: Can't create hyperlinks
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Can't create hyperlinks

 *  [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/)
 * Hi, I am trying to add new posts with hyperlinks and hypertexts, but when I preview
   the page afterwards or publish the page, the links change.
 * For example, I input this:
 * 
 * But the link ends up looking like this after saving/previewing:
 * 
 * I have no idea why, all of a sudden, it won’t allow me to create hyperlinks/hypertexts
   as before I had no problems at all.
 * Can anyone help?
 * Many thanks
 * [http://www.motherhooddiaries.com](http://www.motherhooddiaries.com)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741532)
 * Given that both of your examples above look exactly the same, it might help if
   you posted a link to a page on your site that demonstrates this problem.
 *  [stephen77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephen77/)
 * (@stephen77)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741535)
 * Set the a:link in the style.css in this order:
 * a:link {}
    a:visited {} a:hover {} a:active {}
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741536)
 * Oh how strange! It seems to have worked here, but I can’t click on the link but
   when adding to my posts it doesn’t work…
 * Basically it cuts off half of the code and the website.
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741537)
 * Ok thanks I will try that.
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741538)
 * I’m sorry stephen77, Im a bit new to editing this kind of code. Where can I find
   the a:link?
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741540)
 * Here is an example of what I mean (you can see this under Week 18 where “maxi
   dresses” and “noodle” are underlined, but a working link cannot be found, even
   though I inputed the webpage I wanted the link to transfer to…
 * [http://www.motherhooddiaries.com/mpregnancy-week-by-week/](http://www.motherhooddiaries.com/mpregnancy-week-by-week/)
 *  [stephen77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephen77/)
 * (@stephen77)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741542)
 * Use firebug in firefox, open style.css in your theme folder. Look for a:link.
   
   Set the color you want for the a:link between {#666} Then the color you want 
   for the hover and visited. You can leave the active as the a: link.
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741543)
 * Thanks, will that help with the transfer to another webpage?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741544)
 * > a working link cannot be found
 * That’s because you haven’t actually entered the address of the pages that you
   want that text to link to. Right now both links are pointing to nothing.
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741546)
 * Yep that’s the thing. I input a working link/address for the link to point to
   and wordpress automatically deletes that web address when I preview the post 
   or publish the page. I have no idea why 🙁
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741547)
 * Are you quite sure that you’re adding the link url and not accidentally pressing
   cancel in the popup? Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
 *  Thread Starter [leylap](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leylap/)
 * (@leylap)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741550)
 * Yeah, unfortunately I’ve tried all that and my last resort was to enquire here…
   I can’t see where I’m going wrong! 🙁
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-create-hyperlinks/#post-1741554)
 * Try [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * You could also try increasing the memory available to PHP:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/253495#post-1017842)

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