Title: Link within extract text
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Link within extract text

 *  Resolved [futurepacer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futurepacer/)
 * (@futurepacer)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-within-extract-text/)
 * Hi
    Loving the plugin – just soooo useful.
 * Is it possible to have text in the extract link to a file to download?
    When 
   creating the post, the link is clearly there but when looking at it on the site
   it shows the text but with the link facility removed.
 * Any ideas?
 * Thanks
    John
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-in-page/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/posts-in-page/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Patrick Jackson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pjackson1972/)
 * (@pjackson1972)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-within-extract-text/#post-5262357)
 * Hi John,
 * Thank you for using our plugin!
 * There are a few ways to add links to the excerpt.
    1. I think you can add them if you explicitly define the excerpt when editing each
       post. You may need to check the Excerpt box in the screen options tab at the
       top of the post editor.
    2. You can use a plugin to change excerpt behavior. [Advanced Excerpt](http://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-excerpt/)
       was recommended in [another forum post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6260928/how-to-include-html-tags-within-a-wordpress-excerpt).
    3. If you’re comfortable with programming, you can use functions to change how 
       the excerpt filter works. [Here’s](http://aaronrussell.co.uk/legacy/improving-wordpress-the_excerpt/)
       an article about that. It’s a little dated, but should still be relevant.
 * Hope that helps!
 *  Thread Starter [futurepacer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futurepacer/)
 * (@futurepacer)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-within-extract-text/#post-5262359)
 * Hi Patrick
    It did help 🙂 1. This word fine so long as the link is written in
   full in the manual excerpt – you were right about the screen options too 🙂
 * 2. I have Advanced Excerpt but when I use it with your plugin, it doesn’t seem
   to work. I’ll contact the plugin developer to see if it can be sorted.
 * 3. Thanks for the info re the function – happy to do that but think I don’t want
   that throughout the site – will give it further thought.
 * In the meantime am using the manual excerpt approach.
 * Thanks for your time and advice, and great plugin of course 🙂
 * John

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