AO3: How to add links that show up as specific words or phrases
(for @tisiclem, who asked for this on a separate post!!)
1) SO! First what you want to do is start out on Rich Text in the chapter you want to put the link in.
2) click the little link icon (circled in red above) and a menu will pop out where you can paste your URL/link into—paste it into the first box titled URL, as shown in the next picture below.
3) where it says “text to display” is where you can change what the readers will actually see. The URL link will automatically be there (as highlighted), so just delete it and put whatever you want to! I usually do discord! so that I can just type “join the” in the regular rich text and then have that one word (discord) as the link, but you can also make it a phrase or string of words.
4) once you change it to whatever you want (in this example i put “join the discord!”) make sure to hit the SAVE that’s on the pop up box. it’ll be in the bottom right. then the link will show up however you wanted it to look, similar to mine up above, and THERE you have it!
Now, as with the last ao3help post I did, you can also add the link you created to your chapter notes and not just your main body area. To do this, simply revert back to HTML and copy what you see:
In this example, I’d copy everything from <a all the way to </a> (tho copying the p’s too won’t hurt. it’s just formatting) and then paste it into the notes where I want it. to see what it will look like to others, you can save the chapter as a draft and see it or you can publish it!
hope this helped!! ❤️
