How to Link
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Quite a few people don't seem to know this so here's
How to link in TJP forum
- [url]http://www.google.com/[/url]
This creates a link that looks like http://www.google.com/ If you highlight your link and click the [url] button it will add the [url][/url] for you automatically. Note that this should not be used for excessively long urls as it messes up the page display.
- [url=http://www.google.com/]Google[/url]
This creates a link that looks like Google. Some people (OK, me) think that this doesn't stand out enough so you may want to add [b][/b] tags to the the link code.
- [wiki]Just the FAQs[/wiki]
This creates a link to the wiki page Just the FAQs. Note that if you want to bold it then the [b] tags need to go outside the wiki tags. [b][wiki]Just the FAQs[/wiki][/b]
- [wiki=Just the FAQs]FAQ[/wiki]
This creates a link to the wiki FAQ page.
How to link in the Shoutbox
URL links are broken in the Shoutbox, you can only use wiki links
- [wiki=WP:FAQ]the FAQ Page[/wiki]
Links entered into the Shoutbox are affected by the 'auto-insert break' for long lines of text. A way around this is to create shortcut names and re-direct pages like WP:FAQ. To create a redirect page, do the following:
- Find the page you want to make a redirect to.
- Click "What links here" on the left and make sure there are no existing redirects (if there is one, it will be specified by the "redirect page" label)
- If there is no existing redirect, copy the title of the page you want to link to (exactly as it is written at the very top of the page)
- Enter the name of the shortcut you want in the search bar (i.e. WP:[short name here]). You will get an option to create the page if one doesn't exist already.
- On the new page, enter the following code. Replace the * * * with the name of the destination page that you copied in step 3. Do not add any quotes or remove any brackets.
#REDIRECT[[* * *]]{{R from shortcut}}
Save the changes for the page, and you're all set to link away!
For a listing of the currently available redirect pages see: Special:Listredirects.
