Hi @otapa,
You can actually just add a regular link and paste the merge tag as an URL 🙂
You may need to adjust the link url, because editor make it like href="http://{permalink}" and you are looking for just href="{permalink}", but this will be fixed in next release.
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Anonymous User 15283950
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That was easy 🙂
Thank you for your quick answer!
If you don’t mind, I have one more related question. When using “permalink” for forum replies, it returns link to an isolated post. I was wondering if it is possible (using that or some other code) to return the link to a reply, but inside originating thread, in the same way it would if you clicked on the time of post in this forum?
Probably there is an easy way with the post ID and some URL preparation.
Please, can you send me an example link to a reply?
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Anonymous User 15283950
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Format is as follows:
<topics_root>/<topic_name>/#post-<post_number>
In the case of your previous post, it would be:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803206
Ok, I get it. So you are looking for a link like this:
href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-{ID}"
Also, can I ask you to rate the plugin? 🙂 You can do it here: https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/reviews/#new-post
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Anonymous User 15283950
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That’s almost it, except I need it to populate aforementioned <topic_name> with the name of current topic, which is variable, so I can’t use static text. Is there some code that points to parent thread?
And I will gladly rate your plugin 🙂
Uh, sorry, I’m doing too many things at the same time and I forgot about this variable.
Unfortunately, it’s not possible with the default trigger’s merge tags.
But there should be a reply’s direct link which looks like this https://wordpress.org/support/reply/8803206/, so it’s <forum-base>/reply/{ID} but apparently it’s a bit broken here on wp.org.
You could also do it in another way – sending the direct link and redirecting it with PHP to the reply in a thread.
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Anonymous User 15283950
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Direct link you posted is actually the output of “permalink” tag 🙂
I’ll stick with the original one for now, as I was hoping to achieve the desired result without editing WP PHP files.
Thank you so much for your assistance and, again, your excellent plugin!
Thank you! Feel free to come back to me with any problems with the plugin 🙂
