How to Direct Link to a Comment in WA (Boost Visibility for Kyle’s Challenge!)

In my last post, if you clicked the link, you may have noticed it didn’t go to Kyle’s competition post, instead, directly going to my comment for the entry.

I found it weird that there wasn’t an option to do that. If you want to though, here’s how to do it using the Inspector tool in Chrome…

Step 1: Highlight your comment

Step 2: Right-click then select "inspect".

This opens the Chrome inspector tool.

Step 3: Look for the comment ID.

Mine is "Id="comment_39693653" <-- note that underscore for the next step.

Double-click that and copy it. You don’t need the ID=” part. Just the comment and the number to identify it.

Step 4: Swap the underscore for a forward slash

Remember to ignore the ID=” part mentioned in the previous step. That needs changed to turn it into a working URL.

Go to the blog post your comment is on, add a forward slash to the end (if it’s not already there), and paste in your comment id with the forward slash, not the underscore.

This is mine:

.../weekly-challenge-build-one-key-page-for-your-website/comment/39693653

Step 5: Share it

If, like me, you had done step 1 to announce how you decided to do the page you were doing, then shared the link without the backstory, you can link between them by editing your comments. That way, people can see the context.

Next Steps:

1. Click this link to see my entry
2. Click the link to see what I did this week
3. Like if you like, comment about what you like or dislike, and/or move through as many URL submissions as you like in the comments of Kyle's post.
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