Title: WordPress Goto
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress Goto

 *  [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/)
 * I am trying to update a marketing page so that a short list of items is at the
   top, and each has a hot link to expanded information about each item farther 
   down, on the same page.
    I followed the instructions on this web page [http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/](http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/)
   except I did not put See? in, but left that part empty. I get a page-missing 
   message from my website provider when I click on the link. What I did was: `<
   a id="poems1"></a>`for the jump-to point, and `<a href=poems1">Jump to Cold Comes
   Through</a>` for the jump-from point. What have I missed? It appears that the
   page I’m on has URL [http://jim-bennett.ca/?page_id=66](http://jim-bennett.ca/?page_id=66)
   and the jump generated in WordPress does not have the ?page_id part in it. Please
   help.

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 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952759)
 * Not quite right – the id has to be part of the HTML tag for the element you want
   to jump to – so for example if a paragraph:
 *     ```
       <p id=poems1> for the jump-to point </p>
       ```
   
 * And you need to use a hashtag for an ID:
 *     ```
       <a href="#poems1"> Jump to Book 1</a>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952777)
 * There must be some information missing. When I edit my page using WordPress ‘
   text’ I can see much of the html, but there are _no _<p> tags visible in the 
   source at all. If I load my webpage in Firefox ‘normally’ and use tools.Developer.
   view source, the <p … > tags _are _there. Does this mean that WordPress ‘makes
   these tags up’ before sending them to my browser, but does not show me them in
   the editor??
    Please help. I really want this feature for my website. Jim Bennett
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952829)
 * If you use the visual editor, yes, paragraph tags are added. But they should 
   be visible in the text editor.
 * But my example using paragraph applies to any element – you can also use `span`
   tags if the jump/link is to an inline element.
 * If this still isn’t working, can you specific the page and where?
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952834)
 * I don’t understand why you don’t believe a simple statement. I said, paragraph
   tags are _not _visible in the text editor of WordPress. I said, paragraph tags
   _are _visible in View Source of the same page in FireFox.
 * Here are a few lines from FireFox..Tools..Web Developer … Page Source.
 *     ```
       <div class="entry-content">
       		<p>Here is a list of all my books that are available now. You can scroll down, or use search, to reach each book.</p>
       <p><strong>Cold Comes Through</strong></p>
       <p><strong>Behind the Lime Kilns: Poems 2</strong></p>
       <p><strong>Hard Landing: Poems 3</strong></p>
       ```
   
 * Here is **the same thing** in the WordPress Editor, Text option:
 *     ```
       Here is a list of all my books that are available now. You can scroll down, or use search, to reach each book.
   
       <strong>Cold Comes Through</strong>
   
       <strong>Behind the Lime Kilns: Poems 2</strong>
   
       <strong>Hard Landing: Poems 3</strong>
   
       <strong>The Scroll of the Violin: Poems 4</strong>
       ```
   
 * As you can see, there are no visible `<p` tags anywhere in the WordPress text.
   
   What I need is a simple recipe, a set of instructions, that will allow me to 
   add a link to each book title, which will jump to that book’s description farther
   down the page. How do I do this in the WordPress ‘text’ editor? Please help.
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952910)
 * I am still stuck. Surely one of you WordPress gurus can make (write yourself)
   a simple page Using WordPress Text or Visual editor, please; with the following
   on it:
    some text some text introducing a hot-link to a jump within the same 
   wordpress non-blog page more text some text which is the target for the hot-link
   above AND actually try it on WordPress, and when it works, tell me how so I can
   do it. I’ve tried different suggested methods but none work. Again, please help.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952911)
 *     ```
       other junk
   
       <a href="#pageofjunk">page of junk</a>
   
       more junk
   
       ajsdofasdofhoasdofasdf
   
       asdfasdafasdfsdafsadaf
       asdfasdfasdfasdfasdf
   
       asdfasdfasdfasdfasdfa
   
       adfasdfjasojhdfojasdf
   
       asdfhgisada
   
       <a id="pageofjunk"></a>
       This is a page of junk.
       asdfadsfasdf
       asdf
       asdfasdfasdf
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952914)
 * If I do the above on WordPress using **visual editor**, I get this on my View
   Page:
    Cold Comes Through [Jump to this book](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/”?output_format=md#poems4″)
   and this My fourth selection In other words, the ‘magic words’ aren’t interpreted
   by the browser. If I do this using the **text editor**, I get this on my View
   Page: Cold Comes Through [in blue] Jump to this book and the hotlink, when hovered
   over, says jim-bennett.ca?pageid=66#poems4 However the link does not work when
   clicked on (nothing happens), and NOTHING shows up where I put the . Again, please
   help. In summary: **The visual editor** ‘escapes’ the < > et cetera so the browser
   does not act on them. All the control codes appear as text on the web page as
   displayed by FireFox. **In the text editor**, Creation of the jumping-off place
   could be working. **Creation of the jumping-to target seems to generate nothing**
   Again, please help.
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952915)
 * If I do the above in the WordPress **visual **editor, the <> characters all appear
   as text in the web page. In other words, the FireFox browser does not act on 
   them.
    If I do the above in the WordPress **text **editor, the jumping-off place
   generates blue text and a page reference that looks something like jim-bennett.
   ca?page_id=66#poems4. BUT clicking on this link produces no action, and the landing-
   place code generates nothing visible on the browser. Again, please help.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952916)
 * Both are correct for me in the view page. [http://www.ourexcellentadventures.com/page-anchor-test/#pageofjunk](http://www.ourexcellentadventures.com/page-anchor-test/#pageofjunk)
 * We best do a basic debug.
    Try – deactivating all plugins (yes, all) 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 Twenty Eleven theme
   to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952917)
 * I only have Akismet as a plugin and it is not activated. It is out of date but
   I never activated it. No other plugins are listed.
    My theme is WordPress Twenty
   Eleven version 1.4. You can see my page source at `http://jim-bennett.ca/?page_id
   =66` and tell me what I did wrong. I put in the href= and id= entries . Search
   for `#poems4` which occurs only in two places. Why does this not work? Please
   help. Again, the blue link appears but it does not jump when clicked. I know,
   yours does, so what is different about mine? Note that I cannot control everything
   from the WordPress editor; it adds paragraph controls that are not visible in
   text edit page. Again, please help.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952919)
 * The anchor (where it jumps to) should not have a #.
 * When using the editor it is best to stay in visual or text. Switching back and
   forth can cause problems. You might want to look at the plugin TinyMCE Advanced
   to give you more options while editing.
 *  Thread Starter [Jim Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jim-bennett/)
 * (@jim-bennett)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-goto/#post-3952921)
 * I changed the ‘anchor’ and the goto now works.
    Thanks very much. I intend to
   use visual for almost everything. I only use text editing when I’m in a bind.
   However for this page, what I need to do re goto is quite limited. I’ll add another
   jump for every new book. Thanks again. Much appreciated.

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