Alright,
I have just installed AME and when updating the posts to convert to ame it appears to have disabled all the wowhead links, the text now just reads [item]Name of Item[/item].
If I edit and save the post the wowhead links start to work again.
Is tehre a quick way of going through all posts and edit then save them, if I have to go through by hand it will take me ages
I used Rebuild Post cache after manually correcting a few (edit/save) and it set those back to