Title: "Screen Options" settings…
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# "Screen Options" settings…

 *  [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/)
 * How exactly are these saved? Is it just a browser thing? I have some really novice
   authors and I’d like to minimize the options they see… so I logged in as “them”
   and removed a bunch of of the fields, but logged in again today and they’re all
   back! Is this normal?

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 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028741)
 * As far as I remember the settings are kept on a by-user basis. When you log in
   as the same user that you changed the settings for you should see them come up
   as they were when you were last logged in as that user.
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028794)
 * Cool…. so that means, theoretically, if *they* log in later on their computer
   they should see the settings I created for them. right?
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028795)
 * that’s how its supposed to work, yes. try it out before you count on it
 *  Thread Starter [nickaster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickaster/)
 * (@nickaster)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028822)
 * well, it seems to be more or less working, though some things sneak back, like“
   slug” for example. God only knows why. BUt it’s definitely better than before.
 * One thing that I really need to stick is the bug in wordpress that adds links
   to images by default. Right now I have to go through posts and remove the image
   links by hand (what value they serve is beyond me). So I create a fake post, 
   upload an image, remove the “link” option, and it seems to reset things to the“
   no link” option. But within a day, they’re back. I don’t know if other people’s
   browsers are not getting the change or if it’s user error… do you know if that
   option is supposed to work the same way? Or maybe it’s in the user’s browser 
   cookie?
 *  [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * (@stvwlf)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028825)
 * Adding links to images by default is the way WordPress is designed. You may have
   a preference that the default be other than it is, but that is a difference of
   opinion, not a bug.
 * The way the media gallery works is an image’s URL is entered in the “Link URL”
   box when the image is uploaded. If you don’t want the image to be linked to a
   larger version of itself, while inserting the image click the “None” button under
   the link URL box. This clears out the URL box. Then WordPress will insert the
   image with no link.
 * I agree this is not the most intuitive design, and it causes newer users to have
   links inserted where they don’t want them. However, if no link was the default,
   just as many users would be complaining that links aren’t inserted automatically.
   There’s really no way to please both groups of users.
 * You can prevent the link from being inserted by clicking the None button each
   time before you insert an image. You can train yourself to remember to do it –
   I have.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
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 * Last reply from: [stvwlf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stvwlf/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-settings/#post-2028825)
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