Inserting links as words/phrases/sentences in place of the https://www.link

[bitsnpcs]

Hello @Moltke ,

good to see your successfully completed tutorial +1

[Moltke]

Hello @Moltke ,

you use the IMG tags to display the image on the forum.

1/ You upload the image to the image host
2/  they give you a link url
3/  you put the link in your forum post and add IMG and /IMG before and after the link url in your forum   
     post, the IMG tags need to be inside square brackets [...] and [/...], where dots are the characters.
4/ then click post

Then your image will appear on the forum post.

The above process it is "hotlinking", it is not the illegal bandwidth theft hotlinking, but it likely was born from utilizing that idea.

Currently I use this image host - https://imgbb.com/
You do not need to join it, do not need to login to it, do not need any account to use it, it is free to use, and free of adverts, it is clean and tidy lines/layout, and so is very fast loading and processing in the browser.

Hi @bitsnpcs
thanks for the feedback! Yes, after reading your previous comment I realized what the problem was and while looking for a solution I came across  the site you just shared https://imgbb.com/ 
If you noticed, the post now features some images which detail the process to follow in order to acomplish the goal of this tutorial.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello @Moltke ,

you use the IMG tags to display the image on the forum.

1/ You upload the image to the image host
2/  they give you a link url
3/  you put the link in your forum post and add IMG and /IMG before and after the link url in your forum   
     post, the IMG tags need to be inside square brackets [...] and [/...], where dots are the characters.
4/ then click post

Then your image will appear on the forum post.

The above process it is "hotlinking", it is not the illegal bandwidth theft hotlinking, but it likely was born from utilizing that idea.

Currently I use this image host - https://imgbb.com/
You do not need to join it, do not need to login to it, do not need any account to use it, it is free to use, and free of adverts, it is clean and tidy lines/layout, and so is very fast loading and processing in the browser.

[Moltke]

Hello Moltke,

info how to add url to an image here - https://www.phpbb.com/community/help/bbcode#f4r0

Hi @bitsnpcs
Thanks for the link. If I get it right, following the method described in that site, unless I host the image it won't be visible in the post, right? Sharing images through a site such as Imgur does not share the image itself but only the link to its site where the image's been uploaded to view. Am I missing something here? What I wanted to do was to post the image directly into the post so users/readers could see it without having to leave the forum to Imgur, but I couldn't do that.

[bitsnpcs]

Hello Moltke,

info how to add url to an image here - https://www.phpbb.com/community/help/bbcode#f4r0

[Moltke]

Hi everyone! Hope you're all having a nice life! I searched the forum and found this post very informative and instructional by the way, however, I know that inserting links can be funnier, so I decided to make this tutorial. The goal is learning how to insert any link as a word/phrase/sentence of your choice in place of the https:// web address, so  instead of users/readers seeing this https://www.linuxliteos.com/ they see this Linux Lite Rocks! how cool is that, eh?. 
In the first line you noticed that the word "post" points to gold_finger's tutorial link on the forum, for that I did the following:
First,  I clicked on toggle view button

Then I selected that word

Next, I clicked on insert Hyperlink button . 

Finally, I copied and pasted the link into the new window   that pops up, hit OK and that was it, that easy.

Maybe some/most of you know this but since I didn't find anything in the forum about it, I thought of having some fun creating this tuto which I hope you'd found useful  . I think this should work with images too but for some reason I couldn't do it, when previewing I didn't see any image    Seizing the moment I ask, How can I do that? Thanks!
EDIT: The problem was the service I was using to share the image, Imgur only allows to share the link to its site where the image's been uploaded to view. So I tried a different one  This site offers the possibility to copy a bbcode link so you can insert your image directly into your post