Title: Document basic usage
Last modified: July 30, 2018

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# Document basic usage

 *  [shacker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shacker/)
 * (@shacker)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/document-basic-usage/)
 * Took me about half an hour before I got a working preview, since I assumed it
   would work much like FB (since it’s tagged that way). Tried pasting in a remote
   URL. Nothing. Switched to Visual mode, nothing. Tried linking a word properly,
   nothing. Inspected my javascript console and server error logs. Nothing. Finally,
   after reading comments in this support forum, discovered that Z-URL **adds a 
   new button** to the formatting toolbar, and you have to paste your URL into that
   instead of pasting a URL normally.
 * Simple once you understand how it works, but since the common assumption is that
   it will work much like Facebook, would be very helpful to begin the plugin description
   with “Adds a new button to the formatting toolbar. Rather than pasting a URL 
   normally, click the Z-URL ‘eyeball’ button and paste a URL into its insertion
   field.”

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/document-basic-usage/)
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