
AnswerLinks will find words in your post that might benefit from a definition and ask you if you’d like to turn them into links like Artie Shaw and Turmeric. Easy as that!Answers.com gets their definition data from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary. They are the default definition link that shows up whenever you do a Google search. There’s a little more information about this feature on Answers.com’s site.PS: This feature was developed by Alex King and is also available as a plugin for WordPress.org users.
AnswerLinks
October 10, 2007 · Updated on March 6, 2025 · 1 min read
We’ve added a feature today that makes it easy for you to link words in your posts to definition pages on Answers.com. For example let’s say you mentioned someone like Artie Shaw or something like Turmeric in a post. If you click the AnswerLink “A” in your editor:
We’ve been getting alot of links from that(answer.com) lately. I was wondering when and if it would become a wordpress feature. =D
thanks loved it
Nice, but… I’d rather have a Wikipedia button. Just my 2 cents.
What a great thing to have available! Thanks for thinking of it!
Nice feature. Some new themes would be good too!
Great!
Wonder if that could be done, for an instance, with Wikipedia…
brilliant and creative!
Hats off to you guys and I am amazed at yoru creativity to add value to bloggers! that’s why I am on wordpress! the best in Blog world!
Wow – thanks a lot. I started to scan all my articles – high score so far is 87 answers!!!
Very clever!!!!!
Thnx alex King!!
Great . . .sometimes I link to Wikipedia, but I’ll try this feature next time. Thanks, and have a good one! 🙂
This is so coooool! Thanks a lot!
Just a couple of days back, I was tagged to write about strengths of a writer, and a key point in my post was about the importance of definitions! I’m very grateful to Alex and the WordPress team.
When will you guys bring a ‘W’ button for Wikipedia links? 🙂
Gr8 stuff….
good job on the cool feature
No thanks. I prefer the real Wikipedia.
thts a gr8 handy tool …. i often had to give links to wikipedia myself.. now its easy … thnx to Alex …
Cool!
I will definitely give it a try!
nice tool, but check the link is actually the definition you want, it came up with a few ‘random’ definitions, that definitely made less sense than more!.
Whoa! Now we can be just like CNN! I just looked up Addison’s disease at answers.com and judged it to be competent, so this feature saves a lot of explaining. Thanks.
what would be really neat is if that feature worked with Snap properly so users wouldn’t actually have to leave the blog they were on.
this is great news. will give a try.
This is nice, and so is Turmeric. 🙂
Sweet!
great feature. thanks for the thought. prob a sweet partnership for you guys as well i would hope. i would suggest adding a wikipedia option as well.
You guys are just piling on the love! Thanks for another great feature. Look forward to using it for say when, I mention Mersenne Primes for some reason or another.
This is great !! However sometimes we only want to link it to wikipedia page. It would be great if similar feature can be provided for wikipedia !!
Excellent! I love the genius of being able to go down your own rabbit hole of knowledge with a simple click on a link. Keep up the innovative work.
Cute, but honestly I would rather have the Incoming Links actually working, as well as a return of the blog feed reader statistics. Those were useful. I appreciate gadgets like this one, but I’d like to see a return to some basic essentials, and to get the things that are supposed to work working again.
i do not think anyone will read till here, but i would like the same for wikipedia very much (and perhaps for a specified language of wikipedia too?)
This additional feature can enhance my post if properly manage it!
Nice additional tools. Great work!!
This is neat. Thanks.
Sounds helpful, since I do things like that in practically every post. Thank you.
Handy dandy. Gracias.
Cool feature; it’ll come in handy.
Thanks
Good stuff…. easier than finding it on Wikipedia and then adding a hyperlink every time… Thanks! 🙂
This is the best ever since I always use use some Medical Terms in my blog. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. (I wanted to kiss you but I know you wouldn’t like it anyway hehe.)
Woooow so coool thx!
awesome! 😀
thanks
thanks… but its not good enough to use yet. It removes all the formating to my post.
Thanks for this!
It is what I am looking for , Thanks
Nice!
My blog is used as a reference blog on Answers.com, so I am happy to find this plugin.. 🙂
Why didn’t you do it with Wikipedia in all languages???
Thanks!!
Looks like a useful feature to me.
Thanks! 😀
WordPress rules. Thanks
Did anybody say “wow” or “thanks” yet? Hmm… How about “cool”? That too? Damn, I got nothing. Good stuff guys, another awesome time saver.
Hey, what about UrbanDictionary?
awesome.
Thanks
Can you add the same link for Wikipedia?
Super. Thanks
Amen!
damn good, Thanks to team…..
good option guys
No offense, but this tool is rather worthless.
Well, I tried this out, and while it is certainly a cool idea, it seems like it, well, munches up the format of your post! (And adds a weird a paragraph tag at the top!) Anybody else have this issue? I tried it several times, and the formatting was always messed up in the end. Otherwise, it’s very cool, and does a great job of adding reference links!
Good idea guys —
But I think too many folks rely on Wikipedia — which has proven itself to be in egregious error many times… due primarily to Wiki’s “open editing” of information. Anybody can change most information.
ExP(Jack)
a great facility from wordpress 🙂
This is an excellent feature added for bloggers. I’ve used similar features like this before and this helps a lot. Cheers 🙂
This is a G-R-E-A-T time saver. I also experience a paragraph tag when adding the code, so I move the code from the top to below my title, where I need a paragraph tag. Thank you for yet another great feature on WordPress.
Great!
Thanks for very good job!
Ask.com and you shall receive.
I mean, Answers.com and you shall receive. Nice new tool. I like it!
The new feature is cool, but is not necessarily helpful, it shows some random definitions that are not always accurate. I think I’ll keep using Wikipedia and Snapview.
Wow, great. I’ve tried it. Thank you so much…