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  • October 31, 2017 at 9:15 pm #870989
    Emperor_T

    I have several PDF files in my Media folders, and have hyperlinks to them on several of the images on my pages. After the last WordPress update, the links no longer work. The URL when I try to open the PDF has a “<a%20href=” in front of the file path and the tech at the hosting organization thought that might be causing the problem. I checked with my host provider and there are no permission issues on the media folders. What I get is a page with the following message:

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    I tried recreating the PDF but have the same problem. I also uploaded a new PDF, linked ot to an image and still get the message above.

    October 31, 2017 at 11:34 pm #871021
    aribann

    E_T

    Edit your page via the Text tab as opposed to Visual
    Remove the ‘20%’ and save
    Reload and view the page in a browser

    October 31, 2017 at 11:44 pm #871027
    Emperor_T

    I can’t edit it in text mode, it is an Image on the page and the data appears to be completely controlled by the Image widget that pops up when I go into edit mode. It offers tabs for Image Settings, Link Settings, Caption and Animation. On the Link Settings tab is the field to enter the URL, and it is clean – http://pointarenalighthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PAS_Announcement-2a.pdf

    November 1, 2017 at 1:12 am #871035
    aribann

    This is what the browser is trying to interpret:
    '<a href='<a href="http://pointarenalighthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PAS_Announcement-2a.pdf" class="autohyperlink">pointarenalighthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PAS_Announcement-2a.pdf</a>'
    Did you put html within the link?
    Can you just place the URL of:
    http://pointarenalighthouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PAS_Announcement-2a.pdf
    …in that link box under Set Manually

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    November 1, 2017 at 1:15 am #871038
    Emperor_T

    That is all that I put into the URL field of the Image, Link Settings page within WordPress. Something is inserting those other characters and I don’t know what is doing it.

    November 1, 2017 at 1:17 am #871039
    aribann

    Sorry just noticed you said it is clean

    November 1, 2017 at 1:28 am #871040
    aribann

    class="autohyperlink"

    What is adding that …a plugin?
    What plugins are you using? turn them off and check again

    November 1, 2017 at 7:03 pm #871351
    Emperor_T

    Cleared my browser cache and that took care of it.

    November 1, 2017 at 10:54 pm #871419
    Jordan Shannon

    Hi,

    Great! I’m glad you were able to get this taken care of. Did you need additional help, or shall I close this topic.

    Best regards,
    Jordan Shannon

    November 1, 2017 at 11:12 pm #871436
    aribann

    ET,
    What plugin were you using that caused this?

    November 2, 2017 at 12:25 am #871463
    Emperor_T

    Doesn’t look like a plug in, it was my browser cache. Cleared it and the PDFs showed back up. Jordan, this can be closed and thanks for the help, aribann.

    November 2, 2017 at 2:30 pm #871675
    Rikard

    Hi Emperor_T,

    Thanks for the feedback, I’ll go ahead and close this for now. Please open a new thread if you should have any further questions or problems.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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