Website Hyperlink Question

[Johnboy]

I have seen hyperlinks in various discussion forums and the hyperlinks are quite often just one word.

Instead or copying and pasting an entire website address in a WC post, is there a simple and easy way to create a hyper-link of a website ?

[Anonymouse]

Originally Posted by Johnboy

I have seen hyperlinks in various discussion forums and the hyperlinks are quite often just one word.

Instead or copying and pasting an entire website address in a WC post, is there a simple and easy way to create a hyper-link of a website ?

Yeppers, that's what that little blue globe in the control panel is for.
• Type in the word or phrase you want to add a hyperlinky to.
Type past the point of the insertion or everything you type afterwards will also carry the hyperlinky forward.

• Once you have completed the sentence into which you want to insert the hyperlinky, go to the linky page and left-click & drag to highlight - then right-click to copy into memory - the web address you will be inserting.
• Now come back to your ongoing post, left click & drag to highlight the word or phrase (turn it blue) you choose to hide the linky in.
• Next, go up to the control panel and click the blue globe thingy, which opens a pop-up paste-in box to insert the previously copied web address sitting in memory.
• Paste the web address into the box and click the OK (left) button under the paste-in box.
• Congratulations. You've just inserted the hyperlinky into the word or phrase of your choice.

This sentence contains a HYPERLINKY buried in the capitalized word "hyperlinky", that ledes to a Czech website called Právní prostor, and discusses/uses the farcical term "hyperlinkys", which Anonymouse coined a decade ago.
(Hope you can read Czech. )
The ACTUAL web address is;
https://www.pravniprostor.cz/clanky/obcanske-pravo/hyperlinky-dejte-si-pozor-kam-odkazujete
...but you can't SEE it.
All YOU see is the word HYPERLINKY in italics and underlined.

You might note that Anonymouse tends to use the I (italics) & U (underline) control functions to set the hyperlinkyed text apart from the rest of the normal text, as well as using the big A button to add a different color (blue, as a personal preference, since it's the web default color for UNCLICKED web links & red is default for ones you've already clicked on) to the hypertext linkyed word or phrase & further delineate that it is in fact a linky and not just normal text.
It's not necessary, just consideration for the readers - to help them notice the hyperlinky more easily.

[h8go4s]

Well, that was painfully complicated. Use tinyurl.com. It's free and simple. Just paste the url into their converter, a couple more steps and it generates the url. Here's an example of an Amazon url that was dozens of characters long:
https://tinyurl.com/oildispenser

[Johnboy]

I'm really showing my ignorance with this question.
Where or how do you access the control panel with the blue globe ?
The only CP I see is the user control panel.
A picture is worth a thousand words.

I should have been more specific in the first question that I posted on 11/23/2021.
Can a hyperlink be created for a discussion forum that does not have the capability built into it ?

[Johnboy]

Originally Posted by h8go4s

Well, that was painfully complicated. Use tinyurl.com. It's free and simple. Just paste the url into their converter, a couple more steps and it generates the url. Here's an example of an Amazon url that was dozens of characters long:
https://tinyurl.com/oildispenser

Could you explain how you created that link ?
Well, Duh ! I see it now.-----> https://tinyurl.com
Thanks !

[Johnboy]

I may be wrong (again) but it seems that a paid subscription is required to be able to change the default alias (name) of the hyperlink at tinyurl.com or any of the other websites offering the service.
This is a default hyperlink name that cannot be changed in the free version of those url shortener services ---> tinyurl.com/nuzbc4xb. It is functional but totally worthless to use because of its name.

[h8go4s]

No subscription required. Paste in the url, click in the "alias" box and type in your desired name for the alias. Then click the "make tiny url" box, then the "copy" box, then paste into your message. Screenshots attached. Also note in the screenshots that you can create a free account. I haven't done that as I don't use it very often.

[Johnboy]

I was able to do all that.
I just didn't care for the way they have their web-address embedded in the link.
Their way of advertising I guess.

[h8go4s]

Originally Posted by Johnboy

It is functional but totally worthless to use because of its name.

BS. I'm done.

[Andre (wallyandre)]

Very easy to do. I just did a short vid to show you:
When you create a new post and want to add let's say: Amazon
you copy the amazon link, you start to write your message and when you want to add the short link, you click on the blue eatyh, erase the http that shows by default, insert your link the once in youre message it's going to be in blue, you just write Amazon , finish your post and save.
The short vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBn7-t8mWro