# Discourse Post Abbreviations

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-abbreviations/55274
**Category:** Plugin
**Tags:** deprecated
**Created:** [January 6, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-abbreviations/55274 "2017-01-06T10:21:20Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-post-abbreviations/55274/7 "2018-07-18T17:36:57Z")

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I’m not sure, but this does the job:

> [@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.

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