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Friday, February 03, 2006

How to link directly to specific comments: In the interests of giving everyone the know-how to take advantage of all the features of the blog, I would like to point out a useful trick that will help make referring to previous relevant conversations easy. At the bottom of each post, you will notice a line that says something like "posted by Tacitean @ 11:28 PM. Clicking on the time (which is a link) will take you to a permenant page for that post and its comments. Say I want to link to Tacitean's post about Psalm 146 in one of my posts or one of my comments. I would right-click on the time link at the bottom of his post and select "copy link location". This will copy the URL for that post's page to your clipboard. You can then paste it as the URL for a link you are creating in a post or comment (it helps to open another window or tab to the main site so you can grab links while composing your comment or post in a different tab or window).
Now, say I want to link, not only to Tacitean's post, but to a specific comment of his attached to his post (saying "as Tacitean said in his comment in the freedom of speech post" isn't very helpful when there are 24 comments for someone to sort through). First I would click on the time at the bottom of his post, taking me to that specific page for his post (which will contain his original post and all the comments attached to it, but is NOT the same as the comment pop-up window you get when you are adding a new comment). Then I would scroll down to the comment in question and find the similar looking time link, looking something like this: "8:24 PM, February 02, 2006 " and do that same right-click, "copy link location" maneuver to get a link that will take you right to that specific comment.

1 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

For instance, here is a direct link to one of tacitean's comments on the Boudicca's funeral procession post.

03 February, 2006 15:12  

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