Links in Posts, Comment Links

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  rlisu · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 3:56 pm

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  Hi, I am rather technologically challenged.

  How would I insert a link into a post (or comment I made also) to make it appear like I want to.
  for example how to make http://rlisu.wordpress.com/ appear as “Robert’s Blog” and still keep it a live link.

  Another problem I have is posting comments on other blogs. How can I get the ‘rlisu says:” think become a live link when posting on wordpress blogs?

  cheers

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  rlisu · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 3:58 pm

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  Perfect example would be my name next to my pic. I notice others have live link while mine is “dead”

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 4:14 pm

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  To link your username to your blog, in the dashboard go to users > your profile and put your full blog URL (starting with http:// into the “website” field under “Contact info.”

  In posts, while in the visual editor, you highlight the text you want to use as a link and then click the “link” icon (looks like linked chain links) and enter the URL into the URL field there.

  To put linked text within comments, you typically would write it in HTML code as below:

  `TEXT_HERE‘

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 4:14 pm

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  Oops, I mucked up the code:

  <a href="URL_HERE">TEXT_HERE</a>

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  rlisu · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 4:18 pm

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  Ahh brilliant, thank you very much.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 10, 2009 at 4:28 pm

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  You’re welcome.