Good curation Oh Famous One. There’s a few things that can make this post better:
1) add a category over on the right column, just click on the check box for Best Links Ever if it has links in it.
2) Add a tag in the Tag box right below it…
3) Activate the links in the post, by highlighting them, clicking on the “chain” button that will become non greyed out when you highlight the link, and pasting in the URL into the popup window. I can easily show you how to do this with a Skype screen share session in a couple minutes if you have any more questions. Happy to do it right now?
added this below later….
Gary, I just edited this post to add Category of Best Links Ever, which is were posts with links go, although a post can have more than one category if desired. Best Links Ever is the only present category with it’s own INDEX PAGE.
I also added a tag. You can re-edit this post as you desire, add or change tags, etc. Sometimes strange things happen with editing posts…and getting the link activation to work has been a problem on Kris’s computer for as yet unknown reason.
She’s missing the “second” row of Tiny MCE that enables linking, among other buttons. HOpe it’s there for you… greyed chain buttons until you select text for link that you have already put in the text entry box for post…then it “shows up” and you click on it, and enter the URL which might still be on your clipboard if you just pasted it into the text box.
We are also clicking on the “open in new window” checkbox in the popup.
Anyway, there’s a sort of protocol for doing a post that is easy when you know how, but perhaps a few stumbling points if you don’t, or as with Kris, your interface isn’t working the same as my WP admin.
I just completed a new post and was able to easily set the category and tag.
Activating the hot link, however, was another matter. I looked all over for the “chain” button, without any luck. I tried the help which is just on the editor and did not mention a chain button.
About the time I was ready to leave in frustration, I happened to notice that “help” described a number of hotkeys, including one to activate a link – “Alt-Shift-a”. I tried it and , voila, success.
Maybe you don’t have the 2nd row of TinyMCE either. Which would be the same as for Kris… and I’d like to figure out why because it’s supposedly part of the code at our HostGator WP install now, so accessible for any user.
Clever to figure the Alt-Shift-a on your part Gary. There’s an additional setting we like to do, which is “open link in new window/tab” which is easily done when chain TinyMCE is available…
Maybe we could Skype and have some fun sharing screens so I can explore how to fix by looking at some of the plugin settings as shown on your machine…