Jim Bennett

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 It is out of date but I never activated it.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.

If I do the above on WordPress using visual editor, I get this on my View Page:
Cold Comes Through Jump to this book
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.

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.

I think I know how this actually works; I would appreciate if someone who really knows would confirm or clarify.
The default image set up for the site will show up on the blog. Other pages will also show this image unless a featured image is set up, for each page. Featured images override the default image on non-blog pages.
When a different page is set to receive the BlogContent, that page may already have, and can be set to have, a featured image. That featured image will not show up when BlogContent is directed to that page. Instead the default blog/website image will show up.
This confuses the naive user who keeps trying to set the featured image on the BlogReceivingPage, and sees it accepted, but not shown.
That’s my first guess at how the system actually works. Please confirm or clarify.
In addition, I suspect from my previous mucking about, that if you change a page’s name to be Main, it too will receive the default image. Again, the featured image can be set but will not be effective.
These partly-baked conclusions are consistent with my experience in trying to adjust my site. Again, please confirm or clarify.
I must state in all fairness that WordPress has been a godsend. A Oaf such as myself can actually set up and maintain a website. That’s magic. Thanks, WordPress team.

Please read my note again. I did exactly what you implied: I changed my static front page to be other than the blog. This works. AND all the blog contents are now not visible. There seems to be no way to make the blog appear as another, non-first page.
I tried to say, specifically, that I do not want to lose the blog as it exists to date. If I do what the documentation says, the blog vanishes. It simply is no longer visible on the site. There is no page named “the main blog” to make a blog page, there is no choice to do this.
Please help. I want to make my site slightly more commercial but retain the blog as a side issue.
Thanks for your insights.