Trouble with internal links
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I had a website with all the links working, but I wanted to change domains and I was getting interference from the domain registrars so I worked on other things for about 10 weeks, then when they fixed their end and I went back it was difficult to recall just how all the options were set. I had using Libre Writer to export .docx files for text and the Mammoth plugin to convert them to HTML which had been working great, put a bunch of paragraphs over a cover block with an image. When I went back the external links were still working fine but every time I clicked on an internal link it would “throw me into edit mode” (which of course means my customers were being asked to log into my site to continue which of course they couldn’t do, making me look like a total doofus). When I looked at the link structure for the internal links they actually looked like a full URL with “action=edit” inside them. Why would the anchor links have a full URL when all they need is the name of the target, and just stay totally inside the HTML structure? No wonder the customer was being thrown somewhere they didn’t want to be! The documentation strongly SUGGESTS to fix this I should edit the URL, but why would it be creating a structure that is going beyond HTML at all? Can anyone answer what’s going ape at the system level so I’m not futilely trying to fix a string that’s encoded at a level where it doesn’t belong to begin with, and probably gets the offensive parts of the string put back relentlessly as soon as I think I might have fixed it? (Please don’t say “clean the cache” or something, I already nailed all the obvious bits.) Is this issue somewhere I’m not even thinking of looking like inside the theme or something? Remember I wasn’t changing all that much here…
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Sorry for not understanding this adequately earlier. From what I see, the internal links created within the Libre office document are not translating to correct internal links within a WordPress block where you copy the content. Am I right?
You may need to create these internal anchor links using the steps here .
Can anyone please get me a “cheat sheet” for EXACTLY what the full path of the URL equivalent of a simple anchor link for a particular page in WordPress looks like
Once the link is created it would look like
https://yourwebsite.com/page-name#anchor-link-nameI’m really confused now, “anchor links” (strictly internal) as documented SHOULD work but for some reason they don’t, please does anyone know why that is? Also if you just wanted to “link” to the actual page with a full URL OUTSIDE OF edit mode you can’t actually do that directly, since the individual pages aren’t really part of the file structure, they’re really sitting INSIDE the database…now there MIGHT be a “stunt” that would make that work but I certainly don’t know what that stunt is…I even put in the plugin “Broken link checker” and it says all these “edit mode” links are just FINE mode 200 links, but they’re actually USELESS if you’re not an admin! I guess there’s supposed to be a way to delete my links and recreate them, but I think that just recreates the “edit mode” links all over again, and I can’t seem to identify the editing mode that’s supposed to recreate the “make a full URL anchor link” solution CORRECTLY…am I REALLY the only person having this problem??
In other words at the heart of all this is, am I expected to “fix” all these “edit mode” links MANUALLY and not simply recreate them, or is it that this OUGHT to work but somehow I’ve done something that’s “activating this bug” and there’s a need to fix THAT? Please give this a bit of thought, I’m trying everything I can find and so far I am finding no practical solution at all for fixing on-page links, thank you!!
I’m reading as much about this as I can, with the help of Google Search. It’s well-known that in some circumstances JavaScript routines (particularly those using jQuery) have been known to break anchor links (usually trying to make smooth scroll work), and SOMETIMES these are invoked from inside various themes. My default theme was “Hello Elementor” (no I wasn’t using Elementor itself), but I’ve tried a few of the “Twenty” themes and no luck yet. My “block stack” is pretty sparse, I just have a cover block into which I “poured” (copy/pasted) the output of Mammoth and it created a bunch of blocks for paragraphs and headings and a few lists, I didn’t precede all that with a “columns” block because it didn’t seem necessary. My plugins are also pretty minimal, it’s the current versions of coming soon page, duplicate page, Jetpack, Mammoth, WPTouch and 3 Siteground plugins. Isn’t there some fairly simple way to at least figure out what broke the actual anchor links, which I would have fairly quickly edited back in if they had been working, and not bother trying to figure out where the “edit mode” stuff came from? It doesn’t seem like trying to make URLs work as page links is likely to work if the pages aren’t actually present in the file structure, but maybe that makes sense to someone who understands the whole picture better than I do.
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