Hi, I’m looking for some high-level guidance on approach to building a link formatting plugin. The plugin should automatically display links to a particular web resource (matching a given regular expression) as a button. Essentially, when someone includes a URL in a post matching a specific patte…

Hi sjd333 welcome to the forum If all you want to to do is style certain links, all you need to do can be done with CSS [immagine] Attribute selectors - CSS | MDN The CSS attribute selector matches elements based on the element having a given attribute explicitly set, with options for …

Oh, fantastic! Thanks for getting back to me. That is a much simpler route to go down, so will go with that. Will report back once I’m done case I can help someone to achieve a similar result. Best, Sam

Plugin dev pointers needed: re-formatting links as buttons

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Mittineague (Mittineague) 26 Dicembre 2017, 12:07am 2

Hi sjd333 welcome to the forum

If all you want to to do is style certain links, all you need to do can be done with CSS

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Plugin dev pointers needed: re-formatting links as buttons

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