Normally, by default, the first sentence of a step is supposed to be bold (and that’s how it is on pretty much all our articles). It would normally also be bold if it was hyperlinked, but lately, if this is the case, the text becomes plain and there is no bolding. The link still works, of course. Example: wikihow.com/Do-Anything
This is a known bug - I’ve been pestering Anna about it for several days, hah. They’re working on it
In the meantime, I believe you can fix it by moving the link so that it isn’t at the very start of the sentence!
Glad I’m not the only one who’s seeing it!
I just played around with this in the sandbox, and it does seem you’re right in that the link has to not be in the first word of the sentence or it affects everything else. Weird how that’s trying to work!
Anna
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Yeah, it used to be that links at the start of steps would be bold but then the words after them wouldn’t (even if in the same sentence, so that looked odd and cut off). Now that part is fixed but the link itself won’t bold, so it’s a bit better but not without its own funkiness… We’re hoping we get this worked out, but oddly enough the bolding logic is one of the most ‘brittle’ bits of code we’ve got so it’s not as easy as it seems like it’d be! Fingers crossed our devs can make all the different variations and possibilities work as you might expect. But the workaround, like Alex said, if it bugs in the meantime is just to move the link a word or two into the step, if that works for the context. Bolding should be a-okay then, like this: https://www.wikihow.com/index.php?title=Do-Anything&diff=26646950&oldid=26646902
Cool! In the meantime I did just fix a couple of these I added myself, and will continue to do so if I see anymore.Hopefully you guys can get something figured out!
Anna
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That’s great - thanks @McDonalds1
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Anna
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Good news - Gaurang pushed a bug fix that should hopefully address this! Our tests look good so far.
The only case that still get a bit funky is if you have a link with the punctuation inside it - then I’m seeing the second sentence bolding, too. He’s working to see if we can address that. In the meantime or if we can’t fix it reasonably without risking the more important fixes, we can always just put the punctuation outside the closing brackets of the link! That seems to work okay - but he’s trying to avoid the need to do that :)
Anna
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The remaining part of this bug should be all fixed - hopefully smooth sailing on bolding now!
