# 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: [February 16, 2021, 7:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-linkify-words/82193/194 "2021-02-16T19:08:59Z")

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Hmm, that’s a bit strange. You’re right, the order in the settings shouldn’t matter, because we sort the words by length:

> <https://github.com/discourse/discourse-linkify-words/blob/a516d488dc23f401a7062808b98a231af9a16ef1/javascripts/discourse-linkify/lib/utilities.js.es6#L99>

Not sure how much time should be invested in this since AFAIK this feature is being ported to Discourse core.

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