Hosted Site(HostGator) and cannot use affiliate links

  • Today I wrote a post about making money with affiliates, and put a list of affiliate links at the end as a reference. Almost none of them work, as most have turned into plain text.

    Does anyone know what the problem might be? My understanding is that free sites are restricted from using affiliate links, while self-hosted WP sites are not.

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  • There is nothing in wp that would stop the use of any link for any reason.

    Thread Starter thegooch

    (@thegooch)

    There’s something going on with the editor. I went back (again) and highlighted the link text, click on the “link” icon, pasted in the URL, and hit “ok” several times just now. The text did not become a link. I then typed the same text again on a separate line, linked it, and then then text became a link.

    I ended up retyping in all of the links that did not work and linking them. Those worked so I deleted the original lines and cut/pasted the new links in their places.

    This is with the Visual Editor, WP version 3.1.3 , IE 9, Windows 7. At least I know how to fix it now, but it cost me a lot of time to figure out.

    hit “ok”

    It should say “Add link.”

    99% of the problems in the editor are caused by conflicting plugins or themes. Have you tried:

    – deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

    – switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    Thread Starter thegooch

    (@thegooch)

    I’ve noted those ideas. Since I’ve got a gigantic to-do list right now, I’ll have to put troubleshooting on the backburner since my post is up and working.

    Thank you very much for your help.

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