How do I get it to STOP showing the hyperlink?

  • After this new update whenever I am on my page in WordPress it shows me what the hyperlink is over top of all of the other words on the page anytime I have my mouse anywhere near a blue underlined word. It gets in the way of what I am trying to do. If I want to know what they hyperlink is I will look it up. This is a pain. How do I make it stop?

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    When one of the 4.0+ updates came out, one of the feature that was removed was the one you’re talking about. Are you saying that’s back in your site in a recent update?

    Thread Starter IMHO_my_blog

    (@imho_my_blog)

    Yes, it was in this latest update. I really don’t like it at all.

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Try deactivating your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible

    I believe he is talking about disabling the new feature ‘WP Link Preview’

    This is the inline popup of the underlying link in the wordpress editor

    I too would also like to know the best way to disable this

    Here’s a hack you can put in your functions.php file to get rid of them:

    // remove wp link preview
add_action('admin_head','remove_wp_link_preview');
function remove_wp_link_preview() {
	echo "<style>.mce-inline-toolbar-grp { display: none !important; }</style>";
}

    They should really add a control for disabling this feature, the inline popup covers up text making it difficult to click around and see/make changes in the editor

    Thread Starter IMHO_my_blog

    (@imho_my_blog)

    Thank you. I will have my tech support person put it in. I am not sure how to do it myself. It should be a 2 minute fix. Thanks so much.

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