Used to be able to if you did this. Make this:
Then you would put your link between these "" and these ><
I will now post a link with a picture of a sunset like I described above.
http://www.youramazingplaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sunset-5.jpg
But as you can see if you want to see it now you have two copy and paste it. Wonder why. Anyone know
When you click to reply sandman, look for formatting help on the bottom left. Jim made some changes so the old code probably doesn't work anymore.
sharehttp://www.youramazingplaces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sunset-5.jpg
Thank you wanton. It worked!
My pleasure, nice photo.
shareBeautiful!!!!
shareStill works the other way too for if you want to customize the link with your own words! 😊
Sunset Picture
Not if you go back and edit that post.
Try it (Change your period to an exclamation point and save it), and you'll see what I mean.
Still works. 😊
shareYou're right April. I just realized that it's only a glitch if it's the OP.
What's the best way to let them know that they need to fix it?
Ok I see what you mean. I went to one of my old posts where I was the OP with a link and when I hit edit, I noticed while the edit screen was open that the code characters that surround the link disappear for some reason. I guess just tell people that their link no longer works lol? They can always just fix it by doing it the old IMDb way:
[ url] link [ /url]
True, but I've gotten to like the "href" way.
Anyway, I just sent an E-mail to Jim, and I'm sure that it won't be too hard for him to fix it.
Thanks again for all of your help April. You're always my "go-to gal" whenever I need help or info on this site. You always seem to be on top of everything that goes on around here, and you always have a wonderful attitude as well.
You are very welcome!! And thank you for the compliments!! 😃😃😃😃
shareI got a reply from Jim, and he said that he is disabling the "href" way because spammers are using them (or something like that).
Doing links without listing the entire URL was one of my favorite things that you could do here that you could never do at IMDb.
Take a look at this thread that I did a while ago, and imagine what a mess it would be if I had to list every single URL... https://moviechat.org/movies/tt0075596/posts/58c4d551d3535f0011371c73
Oh well...The good Jim giveth, and the good Jim taketh away.
So it seems like it's only the OP who can't use the href way, right?
Test
[edit] Okay, it doesn't seem to work anymore even as a poster who is not the OP. Seems to be disabled for all users now. When you use the href method it just takes away the code and posts the word.
This is what Jim told me in an E-Mail...
"a href" tags have been disabled for security reasons due to spammers disguising their links. Disguising links is not possible with the new [url] tags.
This is sad because this was my favorite thing about MovieChat. Thanks to you AtomicReturns for figuring out how to do it right from the start and for taking the time to show us how.
But I think I may have found a way for Jim to put it back in using the new URL-tags. He could do something like this...
[url=moviechat.com]Hi there![/url]
...where "Hi there!" is what you click on, and "moviechat.com" is the link.
Testing
EDIT: Damn!
>>>> Still works the other way too for if you want to customize the link with your own words!<<<<
I will give it a try. Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino
Nope did not work. It used to be when you did this
And put the link between this "" and the name between this>< the name would show and you could click on it for the picture. That is what I did above and the name is shown but you can't click on it.
Yeah it's completely done now.
shareWell at least the admins provided a way to make links clickable.
http://www.hawtcelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/CARLA-GUGINO-at-Environmental-Media-Awards-in-Burbank-4.jpg