Posting links with short text?

As you can see on my signature, all the links I have there, and in my Profile, and every forum post I’ve ever made, show the full text of the URL spelled out. I see lots of people whose links have shorter non-URL text displayed, which is a lot cleaner.

How do I do this? I’ve found a couple of threads in the search that talk about it, but since they’re working, I can’t see the link code that makes them work. I know some variation or combination of [ CODE ] and/or [ URL ] tags is needed, but I’m not getting it quite right. Can someone tell me what is wrong with this attempt:

[CODE][URL=“https://www.lushstories.com/stories/bisexual/buff-bluff-in-banff”]Buff Bluff in Banff[/URL][/CODE]

Quote by joe71
How do I do this?

Copy the URL

Highlight the text you want as the link

Paste the URL

The highlighted text should become a link to that URL. Like this.

Got it! No code at all. See cleaner signature below. Thanks for the tip. Maybe I was just overthinking how to do it.

Thank you for this. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out.

Do you now have to purchase an upgrade to change your forum signature? I used to know how to do that. I guess I could use a refresher. Thanks.

Quote by naughtysarah28

Thank you for this. I was scratching my head trying to figure it out.

It's not just you, it's not very intuitive. And it does have quirks, for example if the URL contains spaces then it borks everything. Or if you use "paste as plain text" by mistake, then it obliterates the highlighted text.

Quote by CharlotteRusse1

Do you now have to purchase an upgrade to change your forum signature? I used to know how to do that. I guess I could use a refresher. Thanks.

I don't think you need a subscription. See this thread for a how to

Gold or platypus subscription required.

Ha! I thought so...