Just a quick hit and run testing topic right now. A link embedder, simply copy paste any external link from another website into your topic editor, wait a second, and a preview will appear of the external website you linked too.

Great for the occasional spammer that may post a link to Teds. You'll be able to see a preview of it before you click on it. @Stick486 gave me the idea when he reported a link to Teds, and he accidentally followed it.

Example:

Woodworking Tools -- Shopsmith Woodworking Equipment and Supplies

WWW.SHOPSMITH.COM

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Woodworking Tools -- Shopsmith Woodworking Equipment and Supplies. Welcome to Shopsmith -- Your Lifetime Woodworking Partner. Shopsmith Makes the Shopsmith Mark 7 -- The seven most needed tools for woodworking. The Tool To Start With -- The System You Grow With

Read more  

I order to create the preview above, I simply copied the url for the shopsmith website into the editor of the topic.

Go ahead and give it a try, in reply to this topic.

Copying the url of our wiki directly:

Wiki | HomePage

THEPATRIOTWOODWIKI.ORG

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Wiki

 

Homepage | WOOD Magazine

WWW.WOODMAGAZINE.COM

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The World's Leading Woodworking Resource

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

21 minutes ago, John Morris said:

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

not always...

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

 

or...

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

 

or....

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link (read more) inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by Stick486

Just a test, a link 

THE STICKLEY MUSEUM

STICKLEYMUSEUM.COM

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A history of L. & J.G. Stickley, Inc. and its manufacture of hand finished solid wood furniture in Mission, Traditional and Contemporary styles. The Stickley Museum is located in Fayetteville, New York.

 to the Stickley Museum.

 

Cool beans John!

 

And thanks @Stick486 for that alert yesterday.

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by Cal

7 hours ago, Stick486 said:

not always...

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

 

or...

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

 

or....

 

One of the drawbacks with this process, is if you try to paste a link (read more) inline to a sentence, this will break up your sentence horribly.

Thanks Stick, ya, the hook only works if you paste the raw link, you can however as you found out use our editor to type attractive text, then assign a link to the text. I am curious if folks will take the time to actually do that, I know with the tags feature we have implemented it's not always a welcome feature, and now we are asking folks to link their text the pretty way, like you did in your reply here if they don't want to see the link preview like Cal performed, by the way great job @Cal!

The purpose of this feature is to give folks a chance to preview the link, before they click. Feedback wanted.

Also, I'll move this to the Patriot Pulse for further commentary by others. Thanks!

2 hours ago, Cal said:

And thanks @Stick486 for that alert yesterday. 

what alert???

2 hours ago, Cal said:

Just a test, a link 

THE STICKLEY MUSEUM

STICKLEYMUSEUM.COM

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A history of L. & J.G. Stickley, Inc. and its manufacture of hand finished solid wood furn

none of that shows as a link so I don't know it's there......

color change??

bold??

underline??

 

Edited August 31, 20187 yr by Stick486

29 minutes ago, John Morris said:

and now we are asking folks to link their text the pretty way

it's your pet..

groom it any way you wish..

13 minutes ago, Stick486 said:

it's your pet..

groom it any way you wish..

Keep the feedback coming folks, give it a try, I am not completely happy with this hook, but if enough of you think it's a worthy addition, I can work the kinks out, thanks guys for your feedback.

This hook is too gitchy for showtime, as can be seen with some of the links above. Shuttin it down, will revisit later.