Hello David,
Thanks for the great question, I’m sorry to hear your links aren’t working as expected.
Can you provide a little more information about the issue? If I’m understanding correctly, you’re trying to make text and image links within a Post or Page?
There are a few ways to create links. The way I do it normally, I’ll type out the anchor text, and then go back and select the text and add the URL, like you can see in this animation:
The same method works with images, but you can also add links to images directly in their edit windows, as you can see in this animation:
If this process isn’t working for you, or your links are disappearing after you’re adding them this way, can you let us know what steps you’re taking when you see the issue pop up?