How to create an URL link to a post in a different thread?

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[OscarCP]

Yesterday I wanted to bring attention in a comment I was writing in one thread, to two previous comments I had posted days earlier in a different thread.

I could have used the numbers of the comment at the top right of each in its original thread (this one’s is #24739955 – as can be seen above). But I have tried that before and it just has not worked. It has only worked, for me at least, for linking my comments to other comments in the same thread. I have done this mostly to make clear to which Anonymous comment, in the same thread, I was answering, so those interested could use the comment link to see what Anonymous had been saying.

But I have seen some here using modified links, where a URL with a chosen word, sentence, etc. (e.g. “mother dear”) on it links to something else, such as a previous comment in another thread.

I was intrigued and tried to find out something about this on the Web. What I found and tried, was the use for free of an online application at a site of an outfit called “Bitly”

I tried that with the full URLs of two comment in another thread, and got short links that look like teaspoonfuls of alphabet soup: I had no control on what the links said in them.

I tried them out, anyways, also pointing out in the comment that I was trying this to see if I could link using different, preferably short links, like some others here.

It worked.

But today I had the comment edited and the links replaced with those comment numbers I mentioned above and that have not worked for me.

Except that the comment number links used by the editor as replacements of the Bitly ones do actually work.

Conclusion: I am completely baffled.

But still interested in how to change something like:

https://www.askwoody.com/forums/forum/askwoody-central/suggestions-about-improving-the-lounge/#2473995

to: “Firefly”.

Any ideas?

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Firefly

Put the URL in the top box.
Put “Firefly” (or anything else) in the second box where you put the post # in your example.

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Testing with: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/how-to-create-a-modified-url-link-to-a-posting-in-a-different-thread/#post-2474005

peacok

It worked!

The trick is to use the gear icon to the left of the box that opens when clicking on the toolbar’s “Link” tool. Then a box like that one PK is showing in her comment (above this one) opens up and then one is under way, following her example there.

I’ve never had to use this gear icon before, so I had no idea.

So: thanks!

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If the link is to a post here on AskWoody, you can highlight the post number with your mouse like this (be sure you highlight the “whole” number including the # sign.)

And then use copy/paste to put it in your new post (the copy/paste function will also copy the underlining “link” to that particular post.)

BTW, this trick works for any “link” from any website with one gotcha.

It’ll also copy any text formatting used by the link you’ve copied (i.e font family, font size, font-weight, font color, etc., etc.) which may need to be “adjusted” to be more presentable when displayed here.

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Thanks, alejr, but what you have explained is what I was trying to say in my original comment, but apparently not very well, that it did not work from one thread to another, only within the same thread. That was the reason why I started this thread.

PK has given me an answer, except she did not explain about the gear icon, that I figured out and then tried, successful it seems, as I have mentioned in my previous comment, the one above yours.

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Interesting

I’ve used that method to insert links to posts in a different thread and it worked.

Of course, it was to one of my own posts, so maybe that’s the difference?

Or, since my preferred browser is SeaMonkey (a FireFox derivative), maybe that has something to do with it not working for you?

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I cross-link from time to time to some of my previous posts, or to outside URL’s, but I use a slightly different method in order to avoid any formatting.  I will open the post or outside URL in another tab, then right-click in the address bar and select “Copy” with the left mouse button.

I then return to the tab where I’m composing a reply, highlight the text I want to use for the link, click the “Link” icon, and paste the URL into the box.

Then I click the Gear icon, and tic the box to “Open link in a new tab”, click “Add Link”, and finish my reply.

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OscarCP wrote:

PK has given me an answer, except she did not explain about the gear icon, that I figured out and then tried, successful it seems, as I have mentioned in my previous comment, the one above yours.

You can also highlight the text in your post you want to create a link for and then click the link tool icon in the menu (3rd one from the right that resembles chain links) like this.

And, as @bbearren posted, “paste” the actual link into the input box that creates.

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