Wordpress help

[spanbgon]

I hate posting questions without actually trying to figure out the problem first. Soo...I did try to find the problem but don't quite see why this is happening.

I'm *trying* to create my first Wordpress post. I'm including a link to an external website and when I preview the site it looks fine meaning it shows as a link. But if I view the actual site (not just a preview) it's just plain text. This wouldn't be a big deal if it's just text but becomes quite a problem if my link is a picture because it'll be blank.

Here's my code in the post:
<a href="http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com">SSWT is the BEST!!</a>


So I looked at the source code and noticed this >>
<h3 class="posttitle"><a href="http://MYWEBSITE/deals/2007/11/29/sswt/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to SSWT">SSWT</a></h3>

From here I went to the Theme Editor and found this >>

<div class="date"> <?php the_time('d') ?>
<?php the_time('M') ?> </div>
<h3 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>

The answer could be staring at me in the face (I'm not really a coder) but why is transforming my links???

It looks like it's changing it to a permalink but again I'm not sure how to correct this. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!
Joe

[LaneLester]

I don't understand your problem, but I think your research is looking at the wrong thing. The things you reported seem to refer to the post title (SSWT), rather than the post itself... if I understand what you say.

[spanbgon]

Hey Lane....I'll try to clarify a little more.
Why is my code changing from
<a href="http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com"

to

<a href="http://MYWEBSITE/deals/2007/11/29/sswt/

So if I was trying to link to www.selfstartersweeklytips.com within a post the link would fail because it's trying to go to http://MYWEBSITE/deals/2007/11/29/sswt/[/img][/code][/url]

[LaneLester]

Still trying to understand, I looked at a link on my new site (see sig). On the blog page (I'm using and a static home page), I have this code in the first post:

<a href="http://blogbonanza.biz/YourOwnBlog.pdf" title="Who Else Wants to Have Their Own Blog... and Make Some Money at the Same Time?" target="_blank">click here</a>

The page source shows it as:

<a href="http://blogbonanza.biz/YourOwnBlog.pdf" title="Who Else Wants to Have Their Own Blog... and Make Some Money at the Same Time?" target="_blank">click here</a>

And it fetches the PDF as it should.

The code you posted second looks like a permalink to a post, rather than a link inside a post. That seems like something is broken, but maybe I just don't understand the situation.

BTW, the gurus seem to agree that a simpler permalink is preferred. I'm using /%category%/%postname%/ on mine.

Lane

[Lynn Terry]

Hi Joe,

Can you give us a link to a live example?

I'd like to take a look.

[spanbgon]

http://chairsforonlineslackers.com/deals/category/misc/

Thanks for checking this out!!
--Joe--

[Lynn Terry]

I'm pretty much lost (sorry)...

When you create the link, how do you create it? Are you using the text editor or the WYSIWYG editor?

[pmaior]

[spanbgon]

Thanks for the info Pablo...tried it but the same thing. Maybe I'm doing it completely wrong. So let me ask this. While you're in WP how would you link to another website?

Lynn - I was in the 'Write Post' portion of WP.

Thanks,
Joe

[Mommyland]

Can I chime in and say it looks normal and works fine for me. Its not making a link on the archive page But it is on the post page.

The H3 part is the title of the post which is a permalink inside your blog (post titles become the link) But the link to the site works fine once your in the post just not the archives/category like I said.

So from what I can see everything looks fine.

[pmaior]

I looked at the source and there is no code at all for the link.

In answer to your question, there are two basic ways to link to another site.

One is by using the blog roll. You can find this in the admin area under links, I think.

In any case you add the links in the admin area then place a tag where you want links to appear. Usually in the sidebar. I think with newer version it is much easier, you can use the widgets to turn these features on and off.

The way you are trying is the second way. you can either code it yourself by typing the html code. ex: <a href="http://www.mysite.com">click here</a>

Or

Use the buttons in the top of the editor. Clicking the link button once brings up a dialog box where you can type or paste your url code.clicking the link again will place the closing tag </a>

If it looks good in the preview but not on the site, then there is probably a setting that is changing something.

I would review all the options. If it is not the wysiswyg editor then there must be something else stripping the tags off.

I am not that familiar with the version you are using, 2.3 , but I do have two blogs using that version. I used fantastico to install them soI don't know what the defaults are when manually installing.

Did you do a manual install ?

I just looked at one of my blog's setup. What do you have set in options|permalinks ?
If you have custom selected and no valid code, that might cause a problem. ( Just guessing here)

You also might try setting up a new user and log in under that user and see if it behaves the same. I don't know if you can put links in comments but I will try that on your site and see what happens.

Got to get to work now. I'll check back later

Good luck

Pablo

[spanbgon]

Thanks for checking this out Pablo & Tamara....I see your comment worked showing the link.

Tamara - I see what you're talking about w/ the H3 tag now.

Here's what I thought would happen (or what I would like):

When going to http://chairsforonlineslackers.com/deals (and this site is just for testing for now) you'll see the Deals on the right side. When clicking on a category (ex. Technology) you'll see all the deals for products with the Technology category assigned to them. I think each deal I list will be a separate post right?

For example....the McAfee post I chose McAfee as the title of the post and this as the code/body:

<a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=Oreuq48fhPI&amp;offerid=134470.10000137&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0">McAfee Internet Security Suite - Integrated Protection for Just $49.99</a><img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=Oreuq48fhPI&amp;bids=134470.10000137&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0" border="0" height="1" width="1" />

[Lynn Terry]

[pmaior]

Joe:

Yes. That is correct, about categories and posts.

As a matter of fact that is what I do at my site.

I use it only to have a destination for Google to check setting up adwords accounts. But strangely enough, though I do little preselling here, I still manage to get some sales without even trying. Power of pinging I guess.



Since I have a url under each keyword, those url's are still the same dcmain, but a different page(not wordpress).

So I see where you're going with this and it should work fine the way you describe it.

If you are doing adwords for these offers, you may even want to put the url of the post that relates to the product. I probably should do this, but I'm lazy and not really using the site to sell, but the possibility is there and I'm building content,although not great, all the time when I add a new offer.

The other thing I was thinking was that your problem could be in your css file.

The class in the source code of your post shows as "entry". So there may be some code in there that tells it to do something with links or "a" I think in css speak.
I'm not a css expert , and you can really screw things up if you don't know what you're doing, but just looking at the code can't hurt, and if you make a backup, minor changes can be easily undone. Oh yeah, That is in the presentation,theme editor,sytlesheet area.

For example the following code tells wordpress what to do when someone hovers over a link in the post title.
#content .post-title a:hover {color: #6F83A5;}

Yours would be entry instead of content. I doubt this is the problem, but you never know.

If you have another theme, you could try switching to it and see if the problem is theme related. If it works in the other theme then it is likely a problem in the theme. That will at least narrow the problem down.

Hope that is not too technical, and that it helps.

Pablo