Title: embedded link problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# embedded link problem

 *  [visualon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/visualon/)
 * (@visualon)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/)
 * Just installed wordpress (I’m new with this program) and just tried to copy a
   page from another site into post.
 * all works fine with the exception that the links that were present on the original
   page get carried over with the addition of a pointer back to my site.
 * my site is: [http://www.PhoneBasics.com](http://www.PhoneBasics.com)
 * an embedded link that should be something like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM)
   get turned into [http://www.PhoneBasics.com/wiki.com/gsm](http://www.PhoneBasics.com/wiki.com/gsm)
 * Is there a parameter that I’m suppose to set somewhere so that the links stay
   as originally copied??
 * many thanks!!
 * Bob

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 *  [clarke1866](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clarke1866/)
 * (@clarke1866)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325800)
 * Are you missing the http:// part of the link? I’d check that.
 *  Thread Starter [visualon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/visualon/)
 * (@visualon)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325817)
 * Negative… all I’m doing is copying code and pasteing it into the post window…
   and then somehow between the time I select the code, click copy, and then past
   it into the window…something modifies the link address to aways append my webaddress
   as the first part of the link???
 * Am trying to figure out how to just let it use the absolute weblink address instead
   of apparently a relative one?
 * thanks.
 * Bob
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325821)
 * I don’t know exactly what you copy and paste into your post editor, but be careful
   not paste anything but text into the editor.
 * _Don’t ever copy anything else than plain text._
 * This is how I succeed in inserting a link to my post:
    1. copy the link from 
   the address field in the browser – it’s always plain text. 2. Select the word(
   s) you want for anchor text in the post editor. 3. Click on the link icon or 
   text button in the editor 4. Paste the url text ( address ) into the link dialogue.
 * Note: The WordPress Rich editor has a button for inserting links, while the simple
   html text editor has a text button.
 *  Thread Starter [visualon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/visualon/)
 * (@visualon)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325823)
 * Petit & Clark1866,
 *  Thanks for your comments… Ok, if what I’m copying from another document/site
   have links embedded in what I’m copying… how do I turn things off so that the
   links do not get carried over? This really loses alot of what I was hopeing to
   do, but it is a solution!
 *  WOuld still like to know why (and how) the link address is being modified, and
   how to go about stopping it from happening.
 * thanks,
 * bob
 *  [petit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petit/)
 * (@petit)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325827)
 * If I copy something from a web page ( or other non textual source ), I always
   copy to a text editor first ( Notepad is OK ) and from there to the WordPress
   editor.
 * So a link means two copy/paste operations. One for the anchor text and one for
   the URL.
    That way I’m sure not to get any extraneous formatting codes.

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/embedded-link-problem/#post-325827)
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