When I add an internal link on my Discourse instance like… https://MyWebsite.com/t/MyCategory It will resolve to a more user friendly link that looks like… My Category - My Website Name Notice how it includes - My Website Name But when I post an internal link from Meta.Discourse.org in the Meta Discourse instance, It does not include - Meta Discourse as shown below. About the Feature category How can I achieve this on my own Discourse instance? I dont want - Meta Discourse or - My Website Name from showing in these resolved links. Thanks! UPDATE I have changed the links above to better represent my question. SOLVED The reason why the Meta Discourse link does not show - Meta Discourse and my website link does, is because my website link is for a category, while the meta.discourse link is for a topic as @supermathie has pointed out. To combat this issue on my own website, I will simply use [My Category](https://MyWebsite.com/t/MyCategory) markdown to avoid it adding the - My Website Name to the end of it. as @Heliosurge has pointed out. Thanks both for your helpful input!

Is the link being used internal use? There is also an option to Wrap Text in [Text]followed by the link wraped in “(link)” ie This topic post#1 [This topic post#1](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-remove-website-name-links-shared-in-a-topic-post/257646?u=heliosurge) You can also do this to the link [This topic post#1](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ /257646) If internal you can shortner it to this. [This topic post#1](/t/ /257646)

[image] James: the solution Ah! Thought you already were aware since you used this method in your OP: It will resolve to a more user friendly link that looks like... [My Category - My Website Name](https://MyWebsite.com/t/MyCategory)

Yeah it can be hard when multiple roots have value. A #theme-component you might like for sharing content externally as links can be quite long. Is Share Link Shortener [image] Share Link Shortener Theme component discourse2 Summary Share Link Shortener adds a checkbox in the share link modal that replaces the share link with a shorter version containing only the IDs of the topic and post. eyeglasses Preview Preview on Discourse Theme Creator hammer_and_wrench Repository https://github.com/discourse/discourse-share-link-shortener/ open_book New to Discourse Themes? Beginner’s guide to using Discourse Themes Install this theme component Features This theme component is e…

I think he was looking to strip the link down if not mistaken to bare minimum. My final shortened link is handy as it also prevents an issue if the client changes domain name breaking the links.

Your right. I did know how to use… [image] Michael Brown: It will resolve to a more user friendly link that looks like... [My Category - My Website Name](https://MyWebsite.com/t/MyCategory) In a perfect world, I was hoping for a checkbox to untick [ ] Exclude Website Name from Internal Category links This perfect world solution would prevent other users who post https://MyWebsite.com/t/MyCategory (without markdown - [Text](link)) and having it resolve to Category - My Website Name So although @heilyatsitepoint solution does not solve the issue for other users posting category links without markdown, it will at least solve the issue for when I make posts (since I will always use the markdown). For the remaining of other users posts…I may just have to turn a blind eye…or edit their post and add the markdown for them. - Yes, I have a little bit of OCD lol.

This is kind of what I was wondering… since we exclude the site name from intra-site topic links, we may want to also exclude the site name from intra-site category links. I should mention there’s another way of doing this that might suit you: #feature (#contribute:feature) gives you a direct link to the category.

This will be of interest for you and other users [Screenshots_2023-03-09-18-07-54] [Screenshots_2023-03-09-18-08-16] Share link shortener

Excellent suggestion for both Category link and tags.

[image] Dan DeMontmorency: I think he was looking to strip the link down if not mistaken to bare minimum. Negative. No matter how long or short the URL is, its resolved to a friendly name MyCategory/Topic - MyWebsiteName [image] Dan DeMontmorency: My final shortened link is handy as it also prevents an issue if the client changes domain name breaking the links. Regarding the shortened link… [image] Dan DeMontmorency: [This topic post#1](/t/ /257646) I love that feature! I was worried that if someone was to right click and copy the link it would copy /t/ /257646 but it will actually still copy the entire URL which is great for those who right click and share outside of the forum. Win-Win :). Thanks for the tip!

You don’t need that newline; you can do e.g.: [This Topic](/t/257646) This Topic

[image] James: Regarding the shortened link… [image] Heliosurge: [This topic post#1](/t/ /257646) I love that feature! I was worried that if someone was to right click and copy the link it would copy /t/ /257646 but it will actually still copy the entire URL which is great for those who right click and share outside of the forum. Win-Win :). Thanks for the tip! This handy if your also considering a domain change as all links that use site domain in the l8nk will break. A client decided to change from “.ai” to “.com” had to fix some important links manually and any post with images still requored using the wrench to rebuild html o fix image displays in posts.

How to remove "Website Name" links shared in a topic/post?

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