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Tools to help authors create inline links to other entries

October 12, 2010 6:41am

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  • #1 / Oct 12, 2010 6:41am

    Sophie Dennis

    31 posts

    Does anyone have any suggestions or solutions for how to make it easy/easier for authors to create links to other entries? I’m talking about creating inline links within, for example, the text of the main body of an entry, NOT using related entries, a separate field etc…

    Especially anything that works WITHOUT needing to employ one of the WYSIWYG tools. (I know, I don’t ask for much :roll: .  We’re currently using Textile + EE formatting buttons for simple text formatting, so perhaps a plugin that modifies the pop-up link box you get with the default formatting buttons?

  • #2 / Oct 12, 2010 6:21pm

    Chuck Liddell

    57 posts

    Sophie,

    I am currently developing an EE add-on to provide exactly this functionality. At the moment I’m not aware of any other way to do it easily.

  • #3 / Oct 13, 2010 6:56am

    Sophie Dennis

    31 posts

    Thanks for the reply Chuck. I’m still fairly new to EE (third site in dev now), so am still at that stage when I’m not sure if there IS a solution out there but I just haven’t looked hard enough. I’d be interested in your add-on as and when it’s available.

  • #4 / Oct 13, 2010 8:42am

    e-man

    1816 posts

    Me too 😊
    As an interim solution, you could always make a template (similar to a sitemap) that lists all the URLs on the site and link to this template via a quick link in the control panel.
    That way your editors can always pop over to that list and copy/paste the url they need.
    I’ve done this twice already on projects and people found this a useful workaround.

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