METHOD 2: To Use an Existing Pretty Link

This example is for creating a pretty link when the anchor text is different, but you want to use the same existing pretty link that you previously created.

1. Before you can use a pretty link previously created, you must have first created the raw link in your article with anchor text.

2. Highlight the anchor text and the target URL will appear.

3. Hover over the target URL and right click the URL to copy the link address.

4. Click on the pretty link star icon to open the popup screen to use a pretty link already created.

5. Click on the pretty link star icon to open the popup screen to create a new pretty link.

• Notice that the anchor text you previously highlighted has propagated into the “Link Text” box.

5. Target URL: Paste the target URL you copied from the page/post.

6. Click on the “Use Existing Pretty Link” box located at the bottom of the popup screen. That box will move from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen (positioned under the “Create New Pretty Link” box), and it outlines in blue.

7. Slug: Type in the shorten name of your existing pretty link.

• When you search by the existing pretty link, the target URL and the pretty link information will automatically propagate to the popup screen.

• Check (√) the box to open this pretty link in a new window/tab.

8. Click “Insert Existing Pretty Link.”

9. Check your article to see that the existing pretty link inserted correctly. Use the same method as you did in #2 to see the existing pretty link URL.

This next example provides a method for you to search for an existing pretty link when the anchor text is different, but you want to use the same pretty link that you previously created.

The process actions for this example are the same for items #1 through #6.

• Notice that after you clicked on the “Use Existing Pretty Link,” the screen appearance has now changed the “Slug” box to a “Search” box.

7. Search bySlug, Title, or Target URL: Since you are using a pretty link that you previously created and exists in your pretty links list page, you need to tell the plugin how you want it to search for the existing pretty link. These are the three choices.

• In this part of the action, we are searching with the Target URL.

8. You should be able to paste the target URL again in the search box by left-clicking in the “Search” box to place the cursor in the box and then left click and select “paste”. If not, go back to the instructions in items #2 and #3 in the beginning process.

• After you paste in the target URL, a drop-down menu will appear that contains some existing pretty links for you to choose the one you want. (Unfortunately, every time I clicked on my snipping tool to get an image of the drop-down pretty links the drop-down would vanish).

9. Select the existing pretty link from the drop-down list you want to use for that anchor text.

• Check (√) the box to open this pretty link in a new window/tab.
  

10. Click “Insert Existing Pretty Link.”

11. Check your article to see that the existing pretty link inserted correctly. Use the same method as you did in #2 to see the existing pretty link URL.