Posts are funny things. They have a few features that Wordpress keeps enabling and then disabling every few times it releases a new version and this time the "<prev" and "next>" buttons are automatically disabled. Maybe that's for the best. When they are enabled they are hard to customize and move around. The code for manipulating them is buried deep inside the Wordpress core. There have been a number of plugins that try to solve the problem but if you use both posts and pages in your site and want the "prev" and "next" buttons to look alike on each type of publication you are out of luck: plugins add navigation buttons for either posts or pages but I haven't seen any that added the same sort of button for both so a user is left to manually build navigation buttons if they can't make the menu work as they would like.
In this case though I get the feeling of "can't live with 'em , can't live without 'em". In making my own manual navigation at the bottom of the posts pages I use the words previous and next. Wordpress seems to pick these up and hide them in the Visual editor, making editing a bit of a pain. Here everything must be edited in the HTML view.
One must click "edit post" avoid viewing the "Visual" tab go straight to the "HTML" view and add new links manually there.
I'll keep looking for a solution for this, but until then copy and paste the general code form previous posts into a new post and edit links by cutting and pasting them in place. I've listed this issue with Wordpress codex.
Oh Wordpress.
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