ok. so i click on the blue link and it opens up a window to enter the url. pretty standard stuff. i do so and click ok. the standard html code then appears in the post. there was never another window for the text associated with the link. so of course when i view the post it is just the code. then sometimes it makes all the text after a huge link. this is infuriating. this is the most basic function of web publishing and it should work. i have been putting links into pages since 1995, i am so frustrated. if i were doing this on my site it would take a second and I have wasted hours over this scouring docs and forums to no effect. either wordpress is buggy or sucks. any suggestions?