How to add links to Forum signature?

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I’ve been trying to figure out how to include an embedded link in the forum signature field (the area that exists between the end of a post and the Thanks that other members may have given to the post). How does one do that?

Here’s what I’ve done so far, with the results I’ve obtained. I used the instructions on phpbb.com given by @kirsty in this topic. This is what my “signature” looks like before doing anything:

After following the instructions for adding BBC code on the phpbb.com page, but before hitting the Update Profile button, the signature entry field on my profile page looks like this:

However, after hitting the Update Profile button, the signature entry field looks as follows:

Note the arrow pointing to additional characters that were added automatically when I hit the button. And then if I refresh the page with one of my posts, the signature ends up looking thus:

Now, I could opt to have the URL itself displayed instead of having it embedded in text. I tried this and it works but it’s unsightly. So the question becomes: how does one embed a link in text in the AskWoody.com forum signature? What do I need to do differently to get it to display as intended?

I know this is possible because some folks do it here. But… how?

 

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Cybertooth wrote:

I’ve been trying to figure out how to include an embedded link in the forum signature field

You can’t.

Notice the small print that says: You can use BBcodes, HTML will be stripped.

To create a link you must have an anchor 1st, “<a>” that is HTML.

 

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Hmm… so then how does @bbearren, for example, do it? (See screenshot below.)

 

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Cybertooth wrote:

Hmm… so then how does @bbearren, for example, do it?

@bbearren is a MVP I could be wrong, if so, I for sure will be corrected.

I nixed the code, it is stripped. oops

 

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Shoot, I was hoping to add links in my sig for the two guides that I prepared here at Woody’s: Keep Running Windows 7 for Years to Come and Make Windows 10 look and work like Windows 7. Both have been well received, but by their nature these topics don’t make for ongoing commentary that brings them back onto the “Recent Replies” list, and so as time passes they will get buried ever deeper in the sediment of past threads–meaning that new readers of the site will be increasingly less likely to chance upon them and benefit therefrom.

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Cybertooth: “and so as time passes they will get buried ever deeper in the sediment of past threads”

Here is an idea: If you cannot put those links in your signature panel, perhaps you could, now and then, here and there, write something as an excuse to put the links to your works in it, in this way trying to keep these from being swamped too soon into oblivion by the eternally rising tide of entropy. I definitely would do that, but you know me… That’s up to you, of course.

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Syntax problem in your link. You need to use (sorry you need to remove the spaces):

to start: [ url ]
at the end: [/ url ]

OR

<url> and
</url>

You didn’t close the first URL with a close bracket, so it didn’t understand the instruction (it had an = instead, in your top screenshot)

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[Cybertooth]

This is maddening! I can’t illustrate what I’m seeing because the forum software (mis-)interprets what I’m typing once it’s posted. So I made a screenshot of what I typed:

I’m leaving the original text of my post below as an illustration of the mess:

@kirsty, that open-ended “” followed by the website-suggested “[url=” and again all I got in the signature was “[url” (with no closing bracket) at the beginning.

Eliminating that “[url=” business (against their suggestion) yields a proper link, but of course not one that’s embedded in easier-to-read regular text.

 

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I’ve tweaked it for you!

Kirsty wrote:

You didn’t close the first URL with a close bracket, so it didn’t understand the instruction (it had an = instead, in your top screenshot)

As you realised, this gives the full link ok, but not the hyperlinked text.

In order to get the hyperlinked text (after several attempts), I discovered the “/” at the end of the link was throwing it. Once I removed that, voila!

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[ url url=https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/keep-running-windows-7-safely-for-years-to-come]Keep Running Windows 7 Safely for Years to Come[/url ]  
[ url url=https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/make-windows-10-look-and-work-like-windows-7]Make Window 10 look and work like Windows 7[/url ]

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Great discovery, @kirsty –that was the critical find to get this working.

Thank you for keeping at it, and then for fixing the signature for me. Much appreciated!

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