Importing from Blogger: Title URLs are lost.
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Hi, I’m another defector from Blogger, which had the capability to add a URL to the title of a blog post. WordPress uses the post title as the permalink (the permalink was contained in the time-stamp of the post in Blogger). Consequently, all the post title links have been lost, and I have to go through them all and add them manually, which is incredibly tedious.
I think it would help people in the future if the links were retained and added as maybe a reference or something to the post.
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Hi
It seems this user above was able to do what I can’t figure out how to do — how do I turn (part of) a post title into a link? The icon-edits (like the button to add a link) don’t work for the post title.
And I went into the source code but I can’t get at it there either.
Advice?
Thx
Lisa -
The Post title is a link to the Post. You can’t divide it up into post title into links elsewhere.
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When I say I “add[ed] them manually”, what I meant was that I went through my Blogger blog, checking for posts with links in the title. I then copied this link and added as a link in the text in the post itself.
e.g.:
[Blogger]
title:<a href="brilliantplacetogo.html>What I did yesterday</a>
post: I went to a brilliant place yesterday and…[Copy ‘brilliantplacetogo.html’ and add to text as follows:
WordPress]
title: What I did yesterday
post: I went to<a href="brilliantplacetogo.html>a brilliant place</a>yesterday and…The post title link in the WordPress post still links to the post itself.
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Instead of just linking each post with a name like <a href=’brilliantplacetogo.html’ which seems like a relative link, I want to put a complete url, what I thought was a definition of a PermaLink, on each post, such as http://www.mysite.com/brilliantplacetogo.html, so that the post can be accessed from any search engine, independently, not having to go to the site’s home page first.
Is that allowable on WordPress’s host program?
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Are you talking about a blog hosted at WordPress.com, or a blog hosted elsewhere using WordPress software? I’m not sure I understand your question, but here we can only answer questions relating to the former; for the latter, you need to go to WordPress.org instead of WordPress.com.
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canyouseeme: I think you’re confusing permalinks with relative and absolute links (paths).
A relative path is something like
../index.html, whereas an absolute path is something likehttp://mysite.com/index.html.A permalink is just a link to a post, page or whatever. In a relational database system, posts are retrieved on demand, so won’t necessarily have their own URL. I’m guessing that a permalink is a special query to the database so that the same post is always retrieved. A permalink, therefore, is just that: a permanent link to something transitory. You can use either relative or absolute paths to refer to it.
I hope that’s clear.
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