Title: How to add links to words in a post Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # How to add links to words in a post * [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * (@scottkr) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/) * I have a Post and when I add an `` around a few words for example * ``` words ``` * It won’t appear on the page. there’s nothing there. How can this be resolved? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/page/2/?output_format=md) * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129454) * I’ve edited the title of your topic to something useful. Just naming the topic“ Posts -” isn’t very effective. 😉 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Choose_A_Good_Topic_Title](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Choose_A_Good_Topic_Title) * Also if you are going use HTML code here then please use the code button. * > I have a Post and when I add an `` around a few words for example * Which words? * Thread Starter [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * (@scottkr) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129456) * I have some wording that I want to wrap/surround with an a href with but when I add it nothing appears on the web page. The wording is there if I remove the a href. Once I add the a href the wording disappears and there’s no hyperlink there. Can this not be done? * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129471) * Unless I’m completely misunderstanding you (which is always possible with me) I think you should try this: * When you create a post in WordPress highlight the word in the visual editor and just click the link button (the one that looks like a chain link). That will popup a dialog box where you can paste the link for that word or words. * Thread Starter [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * (@scottkr) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129483) * Yes, I know how to use the Link and I did that but what I’m saying is that when I add the link code to the words it disappears. * Since there’s no way to attach screen shots here let me try it this way. * Without the a href code this is what shows. * IEEE Spectrum – Features 1790′s unique Patent Scorecard Analysis Patent Power 2012 Scorecard Article California Green Innovation Index 1790 provides patent analysis for high profile green innovation index. * When I add the a href code to the second and third lines this is what shows. * IEEE Spectrum – Features 1790′s unique Patent Scorecard Analysis * 1790 provides patent analysis for high profile green innovation index. * The 2nd and 3rd lines just disappear, nothing zero, gone. * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129495) * Is the preceding `` there for a reason or did it just slip in while you were posting? * ``` words words ``` * Thread Starter [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * (@scottkr) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129497) * Lee, ignore that. The question is can you have an a href in a Post? Because when I wrap some words with an a href as my prior message says it disappears. * Please go to this page as you’ll see what I mean – * [http://dev.1790analytics.com/case-studies/](http://dev.1790analytics.com/case-studies/) * As you see the first 4 lines are plain text. Then just below those first four lines of plain text I put them again but the 2nd and 3rd lines are not there because once I add the a href around the words in the 2nd and 3rd lines they disappear. * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129516) * > once I add the a href around the words in the 2nd and 3rd lines they disappear. * Are you trying to put two lines of text in like this… * ``` Patent Power 2012 Scorecard Article California Green Innovation Index ``` * ?? If so, I will give that a try and see what happens, but I have never had trouble adding a link anywhere. * [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/) * (@2ninerniner2) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129518) * This works 🙂 * ``` IEEE Spectrum – Features 1790′s unique Patent Scorecard Analysis Patent Power 2012 Scorecard Article California Green Innovation Index 1790 provides patent analysis for high profile green innovation index. ``` * [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/) * (@2ninerniner2) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129519) * So does this: * ``` IEEE Spectrum – Features 1790′s unique Patent Scorecard Analysis Patent Power 2012 Scorecard Article California Green Innovation Index 1790 provides patent analysis for high profile green innovation index. ``` * Thread Starter [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * (@scottkr) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129522) * No, TWO separate lines (sentences). * Line 1 with a hyperlink. * Line 2 with a hyperlink. * Line 1 – Patent Power 2012 Scorecard Article * Line 2 – California Green Innovation Index * I’ve done this [words](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/url?output_format=md) As I’ve said when I add the a href to surround the words I want it all goes away. Please look again at the web page I sent you. [http://dev.1790analytics.com/case-studies/](http://dev.1790analytics.com/case-studies/) * This is a Post, not a Page. * Why isn’t the a href being accepted? * [2ninerniner2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/2ninerniner2/) * (@2ninerniner2) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129523) * Two separate lines is exactly what my first post was. I don’t know what to tell you as that code works perfectly fine in a POST. 🙂 * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129525) * This CSS is “hiding” those links: * ``` ul.lcp_catlist a { display: none; } ``` * Line 73 of style.css * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129526) * WPyogi knows… 🙂 * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129527) * > WPyogi knows… 🙂 * LOL – well, not always, but thanks for the vote of confidence, leejosepho :). * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/#post-4129528) * WPyogi get’s my vote. 😉 Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘How to add links to words in a post’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 24 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [scottkr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottkr/) * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-8/page/2/#post-4129542) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics