Text Links

Hello,

I am wondering if it is possible to have a word in my forum changed to a clickable text link automatically.

The closest way to describe what I mean is, how acronym replacements work, with that it will replace a acronym from the initials to the words it stands for.

For example where the word 'help' is written in my forum, it will change the 'help' to a clickable link, to all posts where 'help is written like a tag results page.

Thanks
Ryan

You can make links out of the acronyms.

Code:

' a ' => ' <a href=\"link.html\">a</a> '

i recommend using spaces as above to ensure only that exact word gets linked.

Thanks Brian,

I am no good with code,

Can you insert this as an example for me?

The word is Police and the link url is 'http://www.crimecasefiles.com/forum/tags/police.html'

thanks for the quick reply

Code:

' police ' => ' <a href=\"http://www.crimecasefiles.com/forum/tags/police.html\">police</a> '

Thanks Brian,

I have tried to do it but it says,

Enter acronym replacements (1 per line). Acronym expansion will be applied to these keywords as defined in the option above.

and it wont be in one line because it is to long

and what setting should I have where it says

Acronym Expansion Options:

Do NOT add expand acronyms
Acronyms are not modified.
REPLACE acronyms as expanded text
This option converts matching acronyms to the corresponding text as defined in the field below.
ADD 'acronym' html tag to acronyms
This option wraps each acronym around an 'acronym' html tag with the corresponding text as a name attribute.
ADD 'abbr' html tag to acronyms
Same as above but using the 'abbr' html tag, as opposed to the 'acronym' html tag.

I did try it set at ADD 'acronym' html tag to acronyms
it did make it linkable but it had the word police inserted twice after the clickable text

This is how it looks
San Franciscopolice "> police "> police
the bold text is the clickable link and when clicking on it it says cant find page

Thanks

Hi,

Each line is determined by a Return, a line wrapping down would still count as just one line as there is no return in the middle.

You should select REPLACE acronyms as expanded text, please note as well that

' police ' => ' <a href=\"http://www.crimecasefiles.com/forum/tags/police.html\">police</a> '

Should actually just be

' police ' => 'http://www.crimecasefiles.com/forum/tags/police.html'

vBSEO is clever enough to realise that if it is a URL it should link the text so you don't need to put the full HTML code in there.

Thanks Ceri,

Do you think what I am doing, having links like this in posts on my forum is good for SEO?
the one I used is just an example, I am not going to link to tag results, as I have that on my index/home page, in the tag cloud
they will be more relevant links.

Thanks for the great support

Hey you guys use acronym replacements for "vbseo" on this site?
and it adds the underline and a mouseover feature
how is this done? as in code?

I have used the acronym replacements function before
How I used it on my site was to replace CCF with Crime Case Files
as mainly a short cut for me and staff,
I had to stop using it because in the registration process on my site I have added a random question to stop spam (which has worked very well) but my question was.

"This website is also known as CCF, what do these initials stand for?"

So the problem was that it replaced the CCF
this is how it was displayed.

"This website is also known as Crime Case Files, what do these initials stand for?"

I would like a way to work around this problem but am not sure what to do,
it is not a major problem but would be interested if this question has been asked before?


Regards
Ryan

Can you have a look here,
http://www.crimecasefiles.com/forum/...t-website.html

Is there a way to not have it replaced in thread titles?

Also have a look at how the thread title is displayed in the top of the page of the browser,