daviddebeer

it doesn’t?
http://webwait.com/

hmm, I don’t know, just clicked on it and went through to the site. maybe it was down or having problems when you tried to go to it.

well, it’s working for now and faster than it was previously. I rebuilt using the debug mode, let’s hope everything continues as normal from here on out. I’ve never had problems with this plugin before so this was a surprise.

ah, I understand what you want. I don’t know how to do it myself, never needed it. However, I browsed through my posting toolbar and saw when I clicked on the link button that it does include an option called “anchors”. I have no idea whether this is standard wordpress or not since I’ve been using the TinyMCE Advanced plugin since the beginning and I see that one of the options included is “advanced link”.

The support threads for the plugin is also pretty busy, or you can contact the creator. That might be your best option for what you’re after.

as far as I understand anchor text, it’s simply whatever word or phrase you hyperlink.
So, for example, David de Beer, my name is hyperlinked so that when you click on it you go to my blog (people tend to say, “click here” or “read this”, with here and this being hyperlinked to whatever website or blog the author wants readers to go to). The anchor text is my name, David de Beer.
So:
The text (word or phrase) that you copy the link onto anchors the link in your post/ page.

Ok, so the question is — how do you incorporate anchor text into wordpress?
posts and pages. The next time you write up a blog post (or comment here on this forum even) look to the menu bar (click on html mode if writing a post in wordpress, it’ll be easier to spot the button that says “link”), highlight the word or phrase you want to hyperlink, copy the link you want to use, click on the “link” button in your toolbar, paste the link and you’re done.

Example:

you write a blog post telling your readers how cool wordpress is. You select the word “wordpress” as your anchor, highlighting it, click on “link” in your toolbar and type in http://wordpress.org. click enter, “wordpress” is now hyperlink and you’re done. like so:

wordpress is my favourite blogging platform.

that’s it, that’s anchor text.
(note: this is totally my layman’s understanding of the concept, I could be talking out of my ass).

Interesting!
I discovered this thread by accident while browsing to find a solution to my widget problem. Don’t know how to describe it except that all the widgets (in the admin backend; front is fine) is kind of squished together, with the page stopping loading at the google analytics widget and I cannot edit, delete, move anything or access screen options.

The only thing I did in the last 20 minutes was to upgrade the plugin to 4.3.

Deactivating the plugin does fix the problem, although as has been pointed out it’s not an ideal solution. It’s a good plugin this, never given me any problems before. Hopefully this is a minor glitch.