Can the next “how to for luddites” tutorial be on how to post a link please.
Sure.
That’s pimpsy when you know how.
Let’s get to it! As they say on YouTube.
Go to whatever dodgy specialist website page it is that you want to link to.
Now, I’m using Chrome browser but the process will be similar on other web browsers.
In this case, I want to share a link to a delicious Mexican Sweetcorn recipe.
Notice how you have an address bar at the top of the page. This address is specific to every page you are on.
This is all we need to link to it.
On Chrome, all I need to do is tap it and a little menu pops up whereby I can hit the copy icon (two little pages one on top of the other) and the address gets copied to my clipboard on my device.
Each side of that copy icon (on Chrome at least) you have the Share icon and the other side, the Edit icon.
If you’re not on Chrome, then usually if you press and hold on that text, it will all highlight, and you’ll get an option to copy it. Do that.
Once you’ve copied the link, head on back to your Singletrack reply box, and notice the text above the box that either says ‘Link’ or is a little icon like a chain link.
Hit that up.
You’ll get a box pop-up asking you to enter the ‘URL’ of the image. This is the address that you copied earlier.
Paste that into that box.
Underneath that, another box asks you for the link text.
If you do not enter any text here, when you post your reply, the link will appear but it’ll appear as that whole address you pasted in the box. No biggie, it still works as a link but it’s messy, Long-winded and often doesn’t tell people in simple terms what you want them to click on.
So, enter a short description in that box of what you’re linking to.
In my case it’s a Mexican Sweetcorn recipe, so that’s what I write.
Hit ‘Add link’ at the bottom and it’ll put everything it needs into the singletrack reply box.
Once you’re done, hit Submit at the bottom and your link should appear in your post.
Here’s my link below.
Mexican sweetcorn recipe