Hi mrkryptic,
The visual editor is off. I’ve tried to put in anchor tags manually, but then the entire link disappears once it posts. It does work if I insert the addy into the “link” but I really don’t want to have to do that each time, because some of the addys are really long & the copy function doesn’t work in the link box.
I’ve been to other WP blogs, and when I post there my links show up as links upon posting. There’s got to be a difference between their set-up and mine — I can’t figure it out.
Okay, it did it above as well. My e.g. was
</p> < a href= “http://www.wikipedia.org”