howto More Readable Links: Words Instead of Long URLs

[bradl]

Sometimes you'd like to link to something in the middle of a sentence where it really hurts readability to just paste a long URL that looks like gibberish. To turn the appropriate words in your sentence into a link to the referenced site, use the Link button in the text editor to make your link.  

Before:

Quote

I've lived in Oregon over forty years and still haven't visited Crater Lake. I need to remedy that soon!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Crater+Lake+National+Park/@42.9392992,-122.2789294,67658m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x54c6170840e5e339:0x902bf2e1452fe3a3!8m2!3d42.8684411!4d-122.1684785?hl=en

The fix:

The easiest way to link text is to highlight the word or phrase you like to be the link — such as Crater Lake — and then click the link icon 
 
and paste your link URL into the popup URL field.  

After:

Quote

I've lived in Oregon over forty years and still haven't visited Crater Lake. I need to remedy that soon!

If you want to change your link text (or URL) you can double-click the link while in the editor and it will bring the popup back.

Pro tip - image links:

You can double-click on embedded images and do a similar thing. Here I'll link a photo of our gone but never forgotten Haggis to a page about the other haggis.

Since the photo is already on the web I simply paste the image URL into the editor and hit return to embed the image; then I'll click on the image while still in the editor and paste in the destination URL I want to link to.

Now I can display an image and have it link somewhere else. Clicking on the image of Haggis below brings you to a recipe for his namesake.

 

Have fun linking. As always, feel free to play and practice with these features in the Test Forum, and ask for help using them here in Forum Support.