Title: Help : WordPress bug inserts code into links? Last modified: October 31, 2020 --- # Help : WordPress bug inserts code into links? * [60secondz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/60secondz/) * (@60secondz) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/) * After migrating my website into an updated WordPRess and moving to a new host, so many things broke it’s incredible. * WordPress has injected weird code into every link — it’s devastating. * Look for the “*” asterisks after many words. If the original site, rolling over those askerisks would reveal a window talking about the link or object. This is an HTML code called “Title” . . . it appears WordPress broke all those links. * There are probably tens of thousands of those in the entire site. * 🙁 * Scroll down to a highlighted link “Gutenberg, (Picture)” . . . in the original article, clicking the word “Picture” pulled up a picture of Gutenberg in a little window which was resizeable. * Is there a way to globally FIX that in WordPress? There are probably hundreds of thousands of those in the site. * *** If WordPress breaks a link, so it no longer works, why does it leave it highlighted???? People click and nothing happens. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fhelp-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * [Niall Madhoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nm1com/) * (@nm1com) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13605229) * Hello again [@60secondz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/60secondz/), * My **web browser’s developer tools** show that there are **JavaScript errors** on the page: [ * That seems to be the **code** for the **asterisk windows** you mentioned. **Do you know what plugin you used to create this feature?** * **One option to fix this** is to try **deleting** the cache from **WP Fastest Cache ** then **disabling** all its features. * When I was troubleshooting this issue, I also noticed that the images are **not** displaying on [https://graphic-design.com/2017/01/17/graphic-novel-the-private-beach-of-sexy-and-cynical-trudy-honeyvan/](https://graphic-design.com/2017/01/17/graphic-novel-the-private-beach-of-sexy-and-cynical-trudy-honeyvan/) or [https://graphic-design.com/wp-content/uploads/graphic-design.com/design-bookshelf/graphic_novels/Private_Beach/index.html](https://graphic-design.com/wp-content/uploads/graphic-design.com/design-bookshelf/graphic_novels/Private_Beach/index.html): [ * It seems like the images are **not** on the server or at the correct URL, as they give a **404 not found error**: [http://www.graphic-design.com/design-bookshelf/graphic_novels/Private_Beach/thumbnails/1.jpg](http://www.graphic-design.com/design-bookshelf/graphic_novels/Private_Beach/thumbnails/1.jpg). * Thread Starter [60secondz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/60secondz/) * (@60secondz) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13605300) * YES. The files are there, and the links should work. * Somehow, WordPress took over the entire domain and you cannot even “see” other files. There are 36,000 graphics files in this domain. WordPress can only “see” those which have been imported inside the EDIT interface. * NOBODY, not even UpWork “Gurus” which i PAID to do the site can explain. They all say “Oh, if WordPress doesn’t know they’re there, it won’t see them.” * I think I paid the guy $500 and he installed it wrong. Now I don’t know how to fix that. * 🙁 * Thread Starter [60secondz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/60secondz/) * (@60secondz) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13605312) * Yes, there was a java script in the headers of every page in the site, that caused the image to “pop-up” in a new window. WordPress stripped all that out when he imported a sampling 1,800 articles into the new site. * I’ve fixed about 2 dozen pages, but ALL THE REST are sadly broken. * None of the internal links work at all. Period. * It’s already murdered me in Google rankings. We used to be in the first dozen results, now we don’t even show up. * 🙁 * [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/) * (@jnashhawkins) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13605362) * I don’t think WordPress itself is at fault here… My two scans only show two plugins… * Yet there’s hints of other plugins acting on the site also. And I’m not real enthused about that theme without being able to test a few things there. * My system looked at about 1000 files from the site while only finding 2 errors until I hit the abort. That’s kind of pointing to a problem where the links are munged so badly that they basically don’t exist as written… some really bogus code added in somehow in other words. * I think what needs to be done is to disable all the plugins and go to a generic theme for a bit of time and get that Javascript that’s clobbering those image links to working. * I think doing that will uncover the real problem and get you to a point where the problem can then be fixed properly and links can be rebuilt. * Thread Starter [60secondz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/60secondz/) * (@60secondz) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13605404) * I have no idea that plugins are installed, nor what they do. * Like I said, I paid a “WordPress” developer to migrate my existing site to this new WordPress template. * So I have to search for another “WordPress” developer. * 🙁 * [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/) * (@jnashhawkins) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13606028) * I’m not exactly sure how to help you here… * What can I do to help you figure this out? I can see the problems and think the path I mapped out for you should get you there with a little bit of work. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Help : WordPress bug inserts code into links?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [bugs](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bugs/) * [links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/links/) * [title code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/title-code/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 6 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/) * Last activity: [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-wordpress-bug-inserts-code-into-links/#post-13606028) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics