AnswerLinks
We’ve added a feature today that makes it easy for you to link words in your posts to definition pages on Answers.com. For example let’s say you mentioned someone like Artie Shaw or something like Turmeric in a post. If you click the AnswerLink “A” in your editor:
AnswerLinks will find words in your post that might benefit from a definition and ask you if you’d like to turn them into links like Artie Shaw and Turmeric. Easy as that!Answers.com gets their definition data from places like Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, and the American Heritage Dictionary. They are the default definition link that shows up whenever you do a Google search. There’s a little more information about this feature on Answers.com’s site.PS: This feature was developed by Alex King and is also available as a plugin for WordPress.org users.
Oct 11th at 3:38 pm
We’ve been getting alot of links from that(answer.com) lately. I was wondering when and if it would become a wordpress feature. =D
Oct 11th at 3:51 pm
thanks loved it
Oct 11th at 4:00 pm
Nice, but… I’d rather have a Wikipedia button. Just my 2 cents.
Oct 11th at 4:15 pm
What a great thing to have available! Thanks for thinking of it!
Oct 11th at 4:34 pm
Nice feature. Some new themes would be good too!
Oct 11th at 4:40 pm
Great!
Wonder if that could be done, for an instance, with Wikipedia…
Oct 11th at 5:07 pm
brilliant and creative!
Hats off to you guys and I am amazed at yoru creativity to add value to bloggers! that’s why I am on wordpress! the best in Blog world!
Oct 11th at 5:20 pm
Wow – thanks a lot. I started to scan all my articles – high score so far is 87 answers!!!
Oct 11th at 5:32 pm
Very clever!!!!!
Thnx alex King!!
Oct 11th at 5:50 pm
Great . . .sometimes I link to Wikipedia, but I’ll try this feature next time. Thanks, and have a good one!
Oct 11th at 6:05 pm
This is so coooool! Thanks a lot!
Just a couple of days back, I was tagged to write about strengths of a writer, and a key point in my post was about the importance of definitions! I’m very grateful to Alex and the WordPress team.
When will you guys bring a ‘W’ button for Wikipedia links?
Oct 11th at 6:08 pm
Gr8 stuff….
Oct 11th at 6:24 pm
good job on the cool feature
Oct 11th at 6:48 pm
No thanks. I prefer the real Wikipedia.
Oct 11th at 7:11 pm
thts a gr8 handy tool …. i often had to give links to wikipedia myself.. now its easy … thnx to Alex …
Oct 11th at 7:16 pm
Cool!
Oct 11th at 7:27 pm
I will definitely give it a try!
Oct 11th at 8:15 pm
nice tool, but check the link is actually the definition you want, it came up with a few ‘random’ definitions, that definitely made less sense than more!.
Oct 11th at 9:04 pm
Whoa! Now we can be just like CNN! I just looked up Addison’s disease at answers.com and judged it to be competent, so this feature saves a lot of explaining. Thanks.
Oct 11th at 9:34 pm
what would be really neat is if that feature worked with Snap properly so users wouldn’t actually have to leave the blog they were on.
Oct 11th at 9:40 pm
this is great news. will give a try.
Oct 11th at 11:08 pm
This is nice, and so is Turmeric.
Oct 11th at 11:14 pm
Sweet!
Oct 11th at 11:37 pm
great feature. thanks for the thought. prob a sweet partnership for you guys as well i would hope. i would suggest adding a wikipedia option as well.
Oct 12th at 4:25 am
You guys are just piling on the love! Thanks for another great feature. Look forward to using it for say when, I mention Mersenne Primes for some reason or another.
Oct 12th at 5:06 am
This is great !! However sometimes we only want to link it to wikipedia page. It would be great if similar feature can be provided for wikipedia !!
Oct 12th at 5:11 am
Excellent! I love the genius of being able to go down your own rabbit hole of knowledge with a simple click on a link. Keep up the innovative work.
Oct 12th at 5:51 am
Cute, but honestly I would rather have the Incoming Links actually working, as well as a return of the blog feed reader statistics. Those were useful. I appreciate gadgets like this one, but I’d like to see a return to some basic essentials, and to get the things that are supposed to work working again.
Oct 12th at 9:31 am
i do not think anyone will read till here, but i would like the same for wikipedia very much (and perhaps for a specified language of wikipedia too?)
Oct 12th at 1:14 pm
This additional feature can enhance my post if properly manage it!
Oct 12th at 1:46 pm
Nice additional tools. Great work!!
Oct 12th at 2:03 pm
This is neat. Thanks.
Oct 12th at 2:51 pm
Sounds helpful, since I do things like that in practically every post. Thank you.
Oct 12th at 3:20 pm
Handy dandy. Gracias.
Oct 12th at 9:02 pm
Cool feature; it’ll come in handy.
Oct 12th at 11:27 pm
Thanks
Oct 13th at 3:14 am
Good stuff…. easier than finding it on Wikipedia and then adding a hyperlink every time… Thanks!
Oct 13th at 4:38 am
This is the best ever since I always use use some Medical Terms in my blog. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. (I wanted to kiss you but I know you wouldn’t like it anyway hehe.)
Oct 13th at 8:01 am
Woooow so coool thx!
Oct 13th at 9:16 am
awesome!
Oct 13th at 11:47 am
thanks
Oct 13th at 5:09 pm
thanks… but its not good enough to use yet. It removes all the formating to my post.
Oct 14th at 2:19 am
Thanks for this!
Oct 14th at 1:40 pm
It is what I am looking for , Thanks
Oct 14th at 2:28 pm
Nice!
Oct 14th at 4:41 pm
My blog is used as a reference blog on Answers.com, so I am happy to find this plugin..
Oct 14th at 9:18 pm
Why didn’t you do it with Wikipedia in all languages???
Thanks!!
Oct 14th at 9:43 pm
Looks like a useful feature to me.
Thanks!
Oct 14th at 10:28 pm
WordPress rules. Thanks
Oct 14th at 10:59 pm
Did anybody say “wow” or “thanks” yet? Hmm… How about “cool”? That too? Damn, I got nothing. Good stuff guys, another awesome time saver.
Oct 15th at 5:43 am
Hey, what about UrbanDictionary?
Oct 15th at 2:24 pm
awesome.
Oct 15th at 6:43 pm
Thanks
Oct 16th at 4:01 am
Can you add the same link for Wikipedia?
Oct 16th at 6:39 am
Super. Thanks
Oct 16th at 7:24 am
Amen!
Oct 16th at 7:30 am
damn good, Thanks to team…..
Oct 16th at 9:31 am
good option guys
Oct 16th at 12:18 pm
No offense, but this tool is rather worthless.
Oct 16th at 7:50 pm
Well, I tried this out, and while it is certainly a cool idea, it seems like it, well, munches up the format of your post! (And adds a weird a paragraph tag at the top!) Anybody else have this issue? I tried it several times, and the formatting was always messed up in the end. Otherwise, it’s very cool, and does a great job of adding reference links!
Oct 17th at 12:09 am
Good idea guys –
But I think too many folks rely on Wikipedia — which has proven itself to be in egregious error many times… due primarily to Wiki’s “open editing” of information. Anybody can change most information.
ExP(Jack)
Oct 19th at 10:01 am
a great facility from wordpress
Oct 19th at 11:48 am
This is an excellent feature added for bloggers. I’ve used similar features like this before and this helps a lot. Cheers
Oct 21st at 2:37 pm
This is a G-R-E-A-T time saver. I also experience a paragraph tag when adding the code, so I move the code from the top to below my title, where I need a paragraph tag. Thank you for yet another great feature on WordPress.
Oct 22nd at 12:50 pm
Great!
Thanks for very good job!
Oct 23rd at 3:00 am
Ask.com and you shall receive.
Oct 23rd at 3:01 am
I mean, Answers.com and you shall receive. Nice new tool. I like it!
Oct 23rd at 5:23 am
The new feature is cool, but is not necessarily helpful, it shows some random definitions that are not always accurate. I think I’ll keep using Wikipedia and Snapview.
Oct 23rd at 11:15 am
Wow, great. I’ve tried it. Thank you so much…