links in a wordpress.com comment field

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  bipolarsojourner · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 4:38 pm

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  I would like to be able to link and reference to one of my existing blog posts from within a wordpress.com comment field. Is there a way to add a link to a wordpress.com comment field? I tried embedding an anchor tag and that did not work.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 19, 2014 at 4:51 pm

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  If you paste in a URL, the system will automatically turn it into a link when the comment is published.

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  bipolarsojourner · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 5:30 pm

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  What i’m looking for is a more standard look and feel to the link, more like what can be set up with an html anchor tag. I want a textual description or a part of the sentence to be the link, and clicking on the link takes the user to the URL that is behind it.

  For example, take a look at the RSS feed for this topic link , found in the ride column of this page. It has a text based link, and clicking on it will send the user to a URL.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 19, 2014 at 5:56 pm

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  You can use standard HTML to create links in comments.

  <a href="http://google.com">Click here to go to Google.</a>

  the HTML for your RSS feed example would be:

  <a href="https://en.forums.wordpress.com/rss/topic/links-in-a-wordpresscom-comment-field">RSS feed for this topic</a>

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  bipolarsojourner · Member · Dec 19, 2014 at 6:00 pm

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  Ah, I see what I did wrong. My leading < some how got lost. That cause the whole mess to get rendered as text as oppose to an anchor link.

  I appreciate your help.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 20, 2014 at 12:36 am

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  Glad you got it sorted out.

  Happy blogging.