Title: HTML formatting Last modified: February 13, 2017 --- # HTML formatting * Resolved Anonymous User 15283950 * (@anonymized-15283950) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/) * Hi, is it possible to format output of “permalink” code as an actual link as opposed to plain text, and how? * Thank you for making this very useful plugin! Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8801224) * Hi @otapa, * You can actually just add a regular link and paste the merge tag as an URL 🙂 * You may need to adjust the link url, because editor make it like `href="http://{ permalink}"` and you are looking for just `href="{permalink}"`, but this will be fixed in next release. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 15283950 * (@anonymized-15283950) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803157) * That was easy 🙂 * Thank you for your quick answer! * If you don’t mind, I have one more related question. When using “permalink” for forum replies, it returns link to an isolated post. I was wondering if it is possible (using that or some other code) to return the link to a reply, but inside originating thread, in the same way it would if you clicked on the time of post in this forum? * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803206) * Probably there is an easy way with the post ID and some URL preparation. * Please, can you send me an example link to a reply? * Thread Starter Anonymous User 15283950 * (@anonymized-15283950) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803251) * Format is as follows: * `//#post-` * In the case of your previous post, it would be: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803206](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803206) * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803287) * Ok, I get it. So you are looking for a link like this: * `href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-{ID}"` * Also, can I ask you to rate the plugin? 🙂 You can do it here: [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/reviews/#new-post](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/notification/reviews/#new-post) * Thread Starter Anonymous User 15283950 * (@anonymized-15283950) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803309) * That’s almost it, except I need it to populate aforementioned with the name of current topic, which is variable, so I can’t use static text. Is there some code that points to parent thread? * And I will gladly rate your plugin 🙂 * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803357) * Uh, sorry, I’m doing too many things at the same time and I forgot about this variable. * Unfortunately, it’s not possible with the default trigger’s merge tags. * But there should be a reply’s direct link which looks like this [https://wordpress.org/support/reply/8803206/](https://wordpress.org/support/reply/8803206/), so it’s `/reply/{ID}` but apparently it’s a bit broken here on wp. org. * You could also do it in another way – sending the direct link and redirecting it with PHP to the reply in a thread. * Thread Starter Anonymous User 15283950 * (@anonymized-15283950) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803420) * Direct link you posted is actually the output of “permalink” tag 🙂 * I’ll stick with the original one for now, as I was hoping to achieve the desired result without editing WP PHP files. * Thank you so much for your assistance and, again, your excellent plugin! * Plugin Author [Kuba Mikita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kubitomakita/) * (@kubitomakita) * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-formatting-2/#post-8803458) * Thank you! 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