Title: Adding Links Trashes the Post
Last modified: February 8, 2020

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# Adding Links Trashes the Post

 *  Resolved [Russell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coastventures/)
 * (@coastventures)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-trashes-the-post/)
 * I am none too happy today. After writing a complete article and saving it numerous
   times during, I was finished. The post was very detailed and long including many
   options and came out great. It was supposed to be saved. But when I went to add
   a link to a word in the text, after typing in the link and clicking the Confirm
   button in the add-link popup, that click was deadly. Clicking that Confirm button
   instantly transported me to the page of the link and erased my entire article.
   When it took me out of the PageLayer editor, all I could do was hit the Back 
   button on my browser (Chrome) to return to the post I had just finished. Upon
   page load of the editor I found my article was empty, nothing there but the rows
   and column boxes. All of my writing and numerous other option inputs were gone.
   PageLayer then closed with no problem of even asking to save it. I had already
   saved it before this gliche but now all was gone and PageLayer went back to WordPress.
   I opened the post again in PageLayer only to find it was empty of any info. All
   the text, images, videos, tables, everything was gone, all to absolutely no fault
   of my own!
 * So I guess I rewrite and rebuild everything only this has happened once before
   and I know that it never comes out as good as my first writing. Thank you for
   wasting hours of work and creativity PageLayer. It seems I am on here most every
   day now with some new problem with PageLayer. This plugin is great but it needs
   serious work.
 * Have you gotten any reports from others of this malfunction when attempting to
   add links into a page build? I know you can’t bring back my work but maybe you
   could look into what’s causing this and fix the plugin so we can add links to
   text without PageLayer literally erasing all of our data. Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Russell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coastventures/)
 * (@coastventures)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-trashes-the-post/#post-12438395)
 * No response? Oh well, I’m over it.

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 * Last reply from: [Russell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coastventures/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-trashes-the-post/#post-12438395)
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