Title: Super annoying ‘Link’ function… Last modified: February 10, 2018 --- # Super annoying ‘Link’ function… * [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/) * This issue has been traveling along with WP upgrades for a while now, I keep hoping it will be fixed, but I guess someone feels it’s a ‘feature’ of editing in WP. I can’t really link to any page as it occurs during editing…before publishing. I can’t give a screenshot because the latest upgrade for my Ubuntu wiped out ALT PrtSrn for whatever reason. Gah. * Anyway, what happens is when I insert a picture in my text (and I almost always add a picture or series of pictures to an area of my post that is free of text below the pictures), WP now ALWAYS wants to insist that the next text will be a link! And autosets any text as a link. It starts by showing the cursor as a link! (Blue coloring). As I type in a description of the picture, all the text is highlighted as a link and that annoying link box hangs out under the text. * The text I’m typing is seldom a link. I just want to insert common text between, below, or even above a picture and not have it automatically become a link! And trying to turn it off doesn’t work. There’s no ‘broken chain link’ button now, and just clicking the ‘link’ button (like a press On, press Off function) doesn’t turn it off. * It is super annoying and takes me out of my concentration as I try to shut it off. Please fix this, someone, I’ll be extra thankful. * Thanks. - This topic was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fsuper-annoying-link-function%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-9960758) * This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles. * If you can install plugins, install “Health Check”: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check/) On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to disable all plugins and change the theme for you, while you’re still logged in, **without affecting normal visitors to your site**. * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-9960851) * OK, installed Health Check, activated it, and nothing changed as far as editing a post goes. I did see the new theme so I know Health Check was running. * During editing, WP still wants to insert a ‘Link’ when I just try to add text near or between photos. That’s with all my plug-ins Deactivated. And I still only see a ‘Link’ in the editing icon bar but no ‘Unlink’. Clicking on Link once it’s auto-activated does not turn it off like I would expect it too. * Thanks for your help, but no change so far. (BTW, I am aware of the work-arounds for this issue but like I said, it’s annoying. Here I am working hard at creating a post, and than get pulled up short by something I don’t expect to happen and have to back up and fix. Takes me out of the moment). - This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-9961027) * When you upload a picture, do you set the “link” for it in the media gallery to “none”? * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-9961031) * Yes. Actually that seems to be the default. I don’t actively set it that way. - This reply was modified 8 years, 4 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10181766) * Still having to deal with this annoying ‘feature’. Anyone? * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10181952) * I can’t reproduce this on a clean WP system. * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182012) * I don’t know how to respond to that. It happens on my site. * It happens whenever and wherever I try to create a new post. And has been happening for a year, maybe a couple years now. It did not do that before, and it started happening immediately after an upgrade. I don’t recall which upgrade may have caused it because I expected it to be fixed the next upgrade so ignored it. Several upgrades later it’s still doing it. * I don’t mess with the form and function of the setup much at all. I had not been doing any self generated upgrades to form or function at the time. It’s been pretty much the same for years now. - This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182016) * I do have a work around, but it’s an annoyance I’d like to see fixed. * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182119) * OK, try this. Write some test text in a new post. Then below that, add a picture. Then go above the picture and try to write another line. That line will become a link automatically even if you don’t want it to be. (So you have to correct by deleting it as there is no longer the broken link button to toggle it off, someone took that broken link button out back when this started happening…which kind of implies someone was working on the link editing features). * Then go below the picture and start typing. Change your mind about what you’re typing and backspace. If you try typing again, it is now a link. * Now put in two pictures at once. And try to add text between them. Cursor shows up as a link. * This is different and slightly better than it was. It’s changed recently. But still annoying. - This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). - This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/). * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182154) * Nope, nothing * [https://www.useloom.com/share/23165eeb870343209e98d09748889220](https://www.useloom.com/share/23165eeb870343209e98d09748889220) * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182240) * Try 800 X 600 pictures…otherwise that test isn’t the same conditions as my setup. * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182246) * It’s something on your site. * Disable ALL plugins and use a TwentyXXX theme and see if it happens. * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182265) * Disabled all plugins. No change. * I already use the Twenty Ten theme. You have a particular version I should try? There is no XXX or 30 theme. * Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/) * (@sterndata) * Volunteer Forum Moderator * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182276) * Well, we’re in an “I’ve got nothing” situation. I can’t reproduce the problem and no one else is reporting it. * Thread Starter [Jim@HiTek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jimhitek/) * (@jimhitek) * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/super-annoying-link-function/#post-10182277) * Did you try using 800 X 600 pictures? I know some sites treat thumbnail photos very differently then others. 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