HOW TO ADD A LINK TO YOUR SIGNATURE (NEW, EASY)

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   Hi Friends. THIS POST by topangarose is great and has served us well for ten years. But it's time for an updated version. This thread will cover the basics and aim to alleviate frustration.
WHERE TO EDIT YOUR SIGNATURE
There's a link to the Member Control Panel in the top left corner of this page a little below the NYC Midnight logo. Once you're there, select Edit Profile. Scroll down a bit, and you'll find a box to edit your signature. Your signature will show up on every post you make. Changing it will change it in all your previous posts as well.

ADDING YOUR STORY LINK TO YOUR SIGNATURE
A signature link uses BBCode and consists of three parts: the open tag (top box), the blue text (middle box), and the close tag (bottom box). You don't need to have carriage returns between the different parts, but you can.

The text from the following example boxes produces a working link that looks like this: 250MF: My Awesome Example Story

[URL=https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic58126.html]

250MF: My Awesome Example Story

[/URL]

Copy-paste all three boxes. They'll just be lines of text once you paste them. To have it link to your story instead of my example:
In the top line, replace my link with your link. It goes between the = and the ]
OR just replace the topic #. It's easier and more concise.
Fully replace the contents of the middle line with whatever you want your blue, clickable text to say.
Leave the bottom line alone.
DONE! 

... BUT HERE'S MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FINDING YOUR TOPIC # AND KEEPING LINKS SHORT
Navigate to a story or any post in the NYC Midnight forums and take a look at the hyperlink in the browser address box. The link may look different depending on how you got there.
It might look like this: https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r2-g14-signals-in-space-scifi-dnp-fb_topic58126_page1.html
or this: https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r2-g14-signals-in-space-scifi-dnp-fb_topic58126.html?KW=signals+in+space
or this: https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r2-g14-signals-in-space-scifi-dnp-fb_topic58126_post627728.html#627728
These links all go to the same example story. Despite being different, they all have the same bones. I underlined the same important part in each. You want the number that comes after the word "topic." No matter what crazy-long form your link takes, it'll be there. Find it. Note it down. It's all you need.
Because this is better, and does the same thing: https://forums.nycmidnight.com/topic58126.html

Edited by Avery Other - 26 Apr 2024 at 1:45pm