How do I add a link to a comment?
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Please tell me how to add a link to a comment reply. I see the “link” button in the editing box, and it produces a pop-up box with “http://” already filled in, and then what? If I ignore the box, and copy-paste the url, into my reply, will it be a live link automatically? TIA
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If you don’t want to do html, you could make the link in a draft post using the link button in the visual editor. Then quick switch to the html editor and copy that code. Paste into the comment.
To write a basic link:
LINK_TITLE
The link url starts with http:// -
If you don’t want to do html, you could make the link in a draft post using the link button in the visual editor. Then quick switch to the html editor and copy that code. Paste into the comment.
To write a basic link:
<a href="LINK_URL">LINK_TITLE</a>
The link url starts with http:// -
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Thanks, 1tess. That sounds kind of clunky. Is it any smoother if I do html?
That is HTML, and that’s how you write links.
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Clunky? Not so: it is a new skill to learn.
Well, maybe,
but backwards: learning to write letters with a crayon is harder than typing the letters by pressing keys.To make it almost painless: that is why I told you about using the visual editor to make your link.
1. select “add a new post”
2. use the visual editor and the link button you are familiar with to make the link, just as you do in a regular post.
3. Do not save the “new post” but switch to the html editor.
4. You don’t have to look at the html code: just select all.
5. Paste that code into the comment you are making.
6. Delete the draft post. You do not need it anymore. -
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@buyathread: “If I ignore the box, and copy-paste the url, into my reply, will it be a live link automatically? ” Yes.
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Oh!
even sillier me: quoting devblog, “…but it was a stressful day for me today…. :) …”Yes. Yes it would be a live link. Yes, of course.
Now let me give instructions on how to smack myself on the forehead.
Bet I could make that complicated, too.
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Pana, doesn’t that depend on the theme? I seem to remember that some themes made them live links and some didn’t. But maybe that’s been changed recently as well.
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@ 1tess, devblog, and panaghiotisadam, I’m grateful for your help, as always. Looking forward to learning a new skill : )
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I have the same vague memory of theme dependence that raincoaster and TSP have. What I do know is how heavily my post is used by beginners. Many find it easier to create a draft post first, so the can use the Visual editor to create the link(s) and then copy paste the contents from the HTML editor.
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@timethief – I haven’t had a chance to try any of the suggestions out yet, but, on second thought, that seems easiest.
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