Hi! One, I would just like to thank you for taking time out of your day to do this! Secondly, I actually have a question that is to do with the set up with your account, rather than fic recs. I also want to make a fanfic rec account and am curious as to how you made your tags list page? On your account, you have your overall tag list that has links to where those recs can be found. How do you do that? I hope it is okay that I ask. I love your set up and have no one else to ask.
Hiya! Sure! Well, for starters itās a ~custom theme that we use which is why it looks the way it does. Most customĀ āpageā themes will give you a template to follow in the html so it works properly! But all it really comes down to is straight up just linking things.
For example, if I want to make the tagĀ ātheme: angstā then in the html code I would put:Ā
<a href="/tagged/theme: angst" target="_blank">angst</a>Ā Ā
and that works. Whatever you put in between the ā>ā and ā</a>ā at the end is what people will see when they look at the tags page. So for this it would say angst, but it could be whatever you want it to be! Also, you can put your url before theĀ ātaggedā part but in this instance on the tags page I donāt need to. But if you wanted to, it would look like this:
<a href=āhttps://merlinfic.tumblr.com/tagged/theme: angst" target="_blank">angst</a>Ā
However, if you want to link toĀ a post you need the full url (and itās also how I have to link the masterlist page). So, letās say I want to link people to fics whereĀ Arthur gives Merlin a token/gift and courts him and I donāt have a tag for that, but I do have a post about it then I would do this:
<a href="https://merlinfic.tumblr.com/post/626533645066403840/hey-do-you-know-any-fics-in-which-arthur-gives" target="_blank">Arthur gives Merlin a token/gift & courts him</a>
and then that will look like and be a regular link. For the above, you have to click on the post itself (so when you look at the post you see all the notes below it) to get the url that you need, and then you can just copy and past the web address.
And also, you have to really be careful with the slash (/) symbol. It can really mess up the code and be difficult to link properly, which is why under theĀ āother pairingsā tag I use theĀ āx.ā So, for example, the tag would beĀ āother pairings: merlin x gwaineā as opposed toĀ āother pairings: merlin/gwaineā and that also goes for the tagĀ ātheme: hurt & comfortā instead of using ātheme: hurt/comfortā
Which means the html would look like this:Ā <a href=ā/tagged/theme: hurt & comfort" target="_blank">hurt/comfort</a>Ā
I hope this helps! If youāre interested Iāve answered this before (but more about how I decide on what to tag) you can take a look at this ask! And if you have anymore questions feel free to ask! :)Ā
