Links in quotes and asides

[oandregal]

I was a bit surprised quotes and asides strip the link out of the text, modifying the post entries content. I like the fact that title isn't shown for them, and I guess that's the reason why links are stripped (so the own text acts as a link to the individual post?). In individual posts, the links are there, but the styling makes it difficult to see them if you are unaware of them (which, as a reader, you are).

Would you consider a feature request / pull request that brings back the links in asides and quotes?

[oandregal]

cc @raamdev

[raamdev]

@nosolosw Yes, links are stripped from the content of quotes and asides because without a title there's no way to get to the permalink for the post.

However, I wouldn't be opposed to adding a "Permalink" link to the post meta at the bottom of the post, and then removing the code that strips links out of the content for asides/quotes so that links in the content can be used.

If you'd like to submit a pull request for that, I'll be happy to review and work on merging it. :-)

[bsima]

One additional problem with making the entire post a link is this: in the RSS feed, the entire content is a link. In my RSS reader, this means the entire content is blue and underlined; the pretty typography of the theme is not retained.

I don't think you need to add a "Permalink" in the post meta because the date link is already a permalink.

[bsima]

To properly fix this, we should probably add an option to turn on/off the link stripping.

As a hotfix, it looks like we can just comment out this line:

independent-publisher/functions.php

Line 1229 in 513e7ff

add_filter( 'the_content', 'independent_publisher_maybe_linkify_the_content', 100 );