META: How to post a link in the OP

Submitted by VikingDiet on December 5th, 2022 at 2:57 PM

We see a lot of inability to post links in OPs, and lots of people apologizing in case they did it wrong (no offense to recent posters, this is a chronic issue). I am sure this is not the first post to explain how to do it, but I do see the linked "HTML primer" in the board FAQ doesn't exist anymore.

Anyway, here is how to do it.

1. Copy your link.

2. Click the chain in the post editor. Make sure your cursor is where you want the link to go in your post.

3. Paste your link and click "Save"

4. Your new link will now be highlighted. Changing the link text seems a bit buggy in Edge, so that is outside the scope of this post. You get the raw url, better than nothing!

5. OPTIONAL - If you are unsure if it is still a link (the colors can be hard to see), you can click the "Source" button and look for an "anchor" (<a>) tag. If you are clever, you can change your link text here, by changing what's inside the anchor tag (<a href="do not change href">this part is the text</a>).

I hope this has been helpful. Post other topics for META and I can do some simple tutorials. Embedding images, tweets, and youtube videos come to mind...

I Bleed Maize N Blue

December 5th, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^

Using Vivaldi (Chromium based) I get a "failed to fetch content" message. What I've been doing for tweets is clicking the ... "More" menu at the top right of tweet, selecting Embed Tweet, then copying the URL under the "What would you like to embed" from the next tab that opens up.

In the MGoComment box I click "Source" (last item) to get plain text, and type:

<oembed>[tweet URL goes here]</oembed>

and click Save.

https://twitter.com/UMichFootball/status/1599268019892543488

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mitchewr

December 5th, 2022 at 3:32 PM ^

If you copy the "embed" code from the YouTube video (found by clicking the "Share" button in the YouTube video description), then click on the "Source" button here in MGO and paste that "embed" code directly into the "source" code of the post / comment:

Then when you click the "source" button again to go back to the "normal" view, you'll see a full-sized video like you can see here below:

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lhglrkwg

December 5th, 2022 at 3:26 PM ^

I usually clock 'Source' to switch to html, then twitter, youtube, etc. usually offer an html embed where you can copy the code and paste it in here

The code looks like this:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">ok Michigan engineering: we got a month to redefine football as consisting of two second halves</p>&mdash; mgoblog (@mgoblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/mgoblog/status/1599267917706579968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2022</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

 

But if you paste that into html mode, it'll come out like this:

ok Michigan engineering: we got a month to redefine football as consisting of two second halves

— mgoblog (@mgoblog) December 4, 2022

You can always use Preview to check your work 

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Blue Vet

December 5th, 2022 at 3:47 PM ^

Thanks.

As I've mentioned a few times here, I didn't know how for a long time till someone posted instructions. I'm guessing the instructions will have to be repeated periodically. Not everyone in the MGoBlogosphere is constantly reading it.

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rob f

December 6th, 2022 at 10:39 AM ^

I stickied yesterday's thread in the hope that more MGoUsers learn how to link websites, tweets, Instagram posts, etc.  With so many new users having joined the board  (and numerous long-term members who still don't know how to link), it's painfully obvious that there's a need for a how-to-post primer.

I'm on mobile too, but I'm seeing 40 thread titles per page of the MGoBoard.  

You might want to check your page settings.

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