Website is changing URLs

Could it be robots.txt or .htaccess ?

Looks like you have plugins to change links for sharing and also for checking broken links. The source of your page shows that link has a normal quote " and then several fancy quotes ". The fancy ones should not be there.

I don’t know what this means. I am so clueless. Should I try to remove those link plugins? What are the fancy ones?

@joyously can you provide anymore information on what you think it may be? I disabled one of plug-ins.

I can’t see what you see in the actual page content. All I can see is what is in the browser page source. Because the link shows a class of “broken-link”, it looks like you must have a plugin that put that there. I don’t know it that plugin messed with the quotes or added the additional </a>, but it shows that broken link with the line through it and then repeats the link text, so it seems like a bad idea to have that plugin.
You can edit that page and look at the HTML of it to see if it looks like that in your database or is just something that the plugin is adding.

You can also try using the Health Check plugin that allows you to disable plugins just for the admin so you can isolate which is changing the link.

@joyously So the link (code) that they have me put in the post is as follows.

Tyler Phillips

When I have updated this in the code editor of the post is tells me it’s invalid then gives the option to update to HTML. I’m not sure what that is even doing. I am so lost.

And their link does have the a at the end.

I am also wondering if the no follow tags have anything to with it? I don’t know, I’m pulling at straws here. But I just looked at my RSS feed and it seems to be showing exactly the same. Of course I don’t know how long it takes for a feed to update.

Try this. Edit your post, and edit the link. Remove the space in front of the URL you are putting there. Start the link with the “http” not “(space)http”.

Also, just make your own link. Don’t paste in their code.

How to make a link in the editor, easy version:

1. Type the text you want to link.
2. Copy the URL you want to link it to, with standard copy operation, like Ctrl-C.
3. Highlight the text in your post that you want to turn into a link.
4. Paste the URL directly onto it with Ctrl-V.

Link made.

Video I made for somebody else a while back:

My site is changing all link to my site URL. You click on the links and it takes you to the right place but shows the URL as from my site. I don’t get it.

How do I see my RSS feed in trouble shooting mode?

@otto42 I have to paste their code for their bot to pick up my blog.

I saw the code you’re pasting. You really don’t need to do that. It’s just a basic link with some minor nonsense. Make a normal link. It’ll work. Really.

If it doesn’t, for whatever reason, then paste their code into a Custom HTML block. You can’t paste code like that into normal blocks. You need to use a Custom HTML block to paste HTML code. Makes sense, no?

Also, stop thinking about feeds and everything else. You have a very simple problem that you have made overly complicated. Do the right thing, and everything else just works. It’s not that complex. You don’t need this much effort. Calm the F down. ??

Well I don’t know what I’m doing and I’m getting all worked up over the RSS feed as that’s what baseball-reference tells me is the problem.

Just look at the email below.

While the Doug Fister link in that article leads to Baseball-Reference, when I checked the RSS feed it shows this link:

a href=”https://www.criswellscc.com/?feed-stats-url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmFzZWJhbGwtcmVmZXJlbmNlLmNvbS9wbGF5ZXJzL2YvZmlzdGVkbzAxLnNodG1s&feed-stats-url-post-id=1301″
Since Baseball-Reference doesn’t appear in that URL it’s not getting picked up.

I’ll probably just give up on it.