The Insert/edit link function does not create an “active link” that will branch to another page.

I’m using Mac OS X, Chrome v49.0.2623.112 as the browser, and WP-Drudge v2.7.2 as the theme.

I also tried Firefox v47.0 and Safari browsers. The Insert/edit link option doesn’t work there either.

Background info:
I have a static page that is accessed from my homepage’s navigation menu.

The static page has excerpts (2 paragraphs) from seven different articles. At the end of each excerpt, I want to place a “continue reading” link that branches to a static page with the entire story. That means there would be a total of 7 “continue reading” links on the static page, one for each of the 7 excerpts.

My basic question is: In WP 4.5.2, how do I insert a link on a static page that branches to another static page?

My steps:
– I start in the static page Visual Editor.
– I click on the Insert/edit link located in the editor’s top menu.
– Click on the gear wheel
– Click on a “recent item” that places a destination link into the URL window
– I type in “Continue reading” into the Link Text window.
– I click the blue “Add link” button
– An underlined “continue reading” link appears at the end of the first article excerpt.
Note: at this point, the link looks like it is active.
– I click the blue “Update” button.
– After the page refreshes, a “continue reading” link appears at the end of the first article’s excerpt; however, it is not underlined or active. The link text is just grayed out like all of the excerpt text. The link doesn’t branch to the appropriate static page.

Also, I have two active plugins (TinyMCE Advanced & PDF Embedder Secure), so I deactivated both of them, but the Insert/edit link function still won’t work.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what’s going on?

Am I implementing the Insert/edit link incorrectly, is there a bug in WP 4.5.2, do I need some CSS code, or…..?

I have heard about significant problems with the “Insert/edit link” function and also the “read more” tag function in recent WP updates.

Additionally, I have also read rumors that the problem “may” be associated only with “static pages” and not “posted pages.”

Not to confuse the issue, but here’s one more piece of info:
Early this morning, I actually got the Insert/edit link function to work, but only once. I applied it to the first article’s excerpt and Insert/edit link worked, it branched to another page. Then, when I tried to implement the feature on the other 6 excerpts it wouldn’t work.

In fact, this problem sounds like the Known Problem Ticket# 36732.

Does any one have a go-around fix for this problem?

Any help would be appreciated.

We have several posts with the same name (different categories & taxonomies). When trying to add a link in the WYSIWYG editor to a specific post all of them appear and there is no way to tell which is the correct link.

This could be resolved by adding a title tag to the “item-title” class with the URL of the page/post or perhaps even better an extra column with a tooltip showing additional information on post type, taxonomy and category.

Does this sound like it’s possible/useful?

Before I could edit title=””

Now I can edit the ‘link text’ — which I can anyway change in the editor!!! Where is the innovation, its rather a step back.

Oops, titles don’t display on smartphones? So what? Let’s downgrade all computation…

Please don’t become like Ubuntu, where Canonical botched-up something useful with endless “improvements”.

Thanks.

I am having a few problems with the product pages on my website, for reference I have WooCommerce as the e-commerce plugin, I’m using the theme Replete and this is one of the product pages that I am working on – https://velopex.com/en/product/extra-x/

The Insert/Edit Link button isn’t active when I highlight text within any of the text boxes, and if I click it anyway nothing happens and its as if it activates scroll lock, I’m unable to navigate the page by scrolling.

Also I am unable to add any media to the product. I can’t add product gallery images either. When I click either the Add Media link or the add product gallery images link it just redirects me to the top of the page and nothing else happens.

I have de-activated all of the plugins except for WooCommerce and then re-activated them one-by-one and this didn’t work. I then switched to twenty fourteen theme and this worked and I was able to add images and the links all worked fine. I then switched back to Replete and again I had the same problems.
To me this seems like the issues lie in the theme and so I deleted it and re-installed it however that made no difference and I’m still having problems!

I am relatively new to WordPress so any help would be greatly appreciated!

I’m having an issue with the visual editor. When I want to add a link, I highlight the text, then go to click the insert/edit link button in the visual editor. But, it is grayed out, and I am unable to add or edit links. I am able to add a link in the text view, but I would love to be able to continue adding links in the visual editor.

I am running WordPress 4.1 using the Graphene Theme. All plugins and themes are up to date. I have tried all the following, clearing the browser cache after each attempt:

• Deactivated all plugins in the WordPress dashboard.
• Deactivated all plugins by renaming the folder through FTP.
• Switched to the default Twenty Fifteen theme.
• Replaced the wp-content/admin/includes folder from a fresh download of WordPress.
• Replaced the wp-content/includes folder from a fresh download of WordPress.

Nothing made a difference – the link button still doesn’t work. The weird thing is that I’m running two other sites with almost identical plugins and themes, and they aren’t having this issue. There have a been a few issues with this site recently- I’m thinking something got broken in the meantime.

Do you have any insight or ideas? While it’s a problem I can work around, I’d rather not – and I’d rather have it fixed.

Thanks!

Building a “Master Template” of a WordPress Installation that will then be rolled out across 50+ sub domains. Wondering if there is a way to tell WordPress to use relative links in the posts and pages editor as opposed to absolute?

For example, when using the Insert/Edit Link tool, even when choosing an existing internal page to link to, the absolute url is still inserted. Is there a way to change this to relative?

I’m a Godaddy user so, from what I can see, returning to 3.9 isn’t an option. It just forces you to update.

I deactivated ALL plugins and flushed the cache to no avail. The button is there, it is just “greyed out” when the text I want to link to is highlighted. The REMOVE LINK button is also “greyed out”.

Thanks!

Any ideas? I have tried different browsers (Chrome and Safari) and deleted a plugin I installed.

Thanks!

Anyone else having this problem and solved it?

This is definitely a new development.

BTW,

Thanks!