# Auto-Linkify Words

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-linkify-words/82193
**Category:** Theme component
**Tags:** official, linkify-words
**Created:** [March 5, 2018, 7:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-linkify-words/82193 "2018-03-05T07:16:06Z")
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### Author: ![danekhollas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/danekhollas/32/79637_2.png) [@danekhollas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/danekhollas)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-linkify-words/82193/146 "2019-11-28T16:48:06Z")

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Maybe what you want is abbrify plugin?

> [@Add \<abbr\> tags to words in posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-abbr-tags-to-words-in-posts/88394):
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> About This theme component is ported from [Auto-Linkify Words](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linkify-words-in-post/82193) to provide functionality similar to the [Abbreviations and acronyms plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/abbreviations-and-acronyms-plugin/38501) – namely to wrap various abbreviations used in a given forum/site/Discourse installation in \<abbr\> tags. Location [https://github.com/metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words](https://github.com/metabrainz/discourse-abbrify-words)How to install Credits Thanks to @sam for writing the “Linkify words in post” plugin.

Not quite sure how they would interact together, you might need to do some small customization for it to work, can help with that if needed.

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