Links within a highlighted news and why they're not active
Christine Cahoon Thu 09 Aug 2012 updated: Tue 03 Jun 2014
This is to answer a question from Jamie Guiney, Writer.
Each highlighted item on the nominated sidebar is abbreviated and to do that properly the markup associated with a link in the text has to be stripped out. Once the title is selected, (or image if you've provided one with that news item) though, the full news item is displayed and all links are marked up.
Note that it's generally considered bad practice to use text like "Read the story here" for the actual link. Good practice would be:
My new story...
or
... it's online at http://www.thefrontview.com/2012/07/the-fight-by-jamie-guiney.html
That way the text always makes sense and if you use the latter then the link is still readable and can be copied and pasted by a user who doesn't want to click to get to the news page. See screenshot illustrating how to add a link using the 'Add/Edit Link' option in News if you don't want to use HTML.