@PKH, I noticed that on the 
US Special Offers, Top Sale Picks and DOTD that you donāt require a breaker after 3 posts, is that due to the type of topic, or is that a setting you can update?
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Thatās because @PKH is the creator/author of that topic, so she can bazz in as many as she likes without worrying about consecutive replies (like the Positions of the Week topic for me).
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If you click on the 
icon and type āwelcome pleaseā into the top box it comes up. 
I then shorten the display text to just āWelcome Topicā to make it less off-putting. 
Or you can grab it from the āLearn Moreā box at the top of the page.
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Donāt know what I was searching for but I just couldnāt find it 
- probably a brain freeze moment. Bookmarked now as are a few other of my useful to post topic link subjects.
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@Ian_Chimp How did you make this link go to midway through a post? Linking to that post, Iād have used this:
https://lovehoneyforum.com/t/the-great-big-review-and-testing-guide/257636
And it looks like you added this to the end:
257636#lingerie-testing-4
Does the # and words jump to those keywords? Or can you only link midway through a post if there are subheadings?
Theyāre anchor points. You can create them in two different ways.
The first is using the forumās auto feature. That will automatically make any header an anchor link. A user can grab the link for that by long-pressing on the space just before the header they want to link to, and ācopy linkā:
The second way is to make them manually. I use <a> a lot, though you can pop āname=ā in quite a few bits of html to achieve a similar result:
<a name="NAME"></a>
And the link to jump you that point in the post is, for example:
https://lovehoneyforum.com/t/the-sandbox/257700/1811#NAME
You can have just #NAME as an internal anchor link, but itās quite limited outside of its post. Using the full address is much more versatile, especially on a forum.
The first one needs a header, but the second one you can sneak pretty much anywhere.
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Not sure I understand 
Like this post about how to write a great review doesnāt have headers, but how would I use <a name="NAME"></a> to figure out what to add to the end of the url to make it link to the āAm I waffling?ā (for example)ā¦ ?
The guides predated the auto-header function, so they werenāt formatted to take it into account. However, they do have manual ones. Thereās a list of them here:
There might not be one to everywhere you want to go, but there may be some scope to add more if you spot a missing one.
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Okay, I think Iām with you. I thought you wanted to make an anchor link. But to use the existing ones it needs to be a header (to grab the gap link), or you need to know the anchor (which you can get from that list, or copy an existing link).
Does that make more sense?
Iāve just rebuilt the html, so you should be able to grab a link to āAm I Wafflingā by long-pressing just to the left of the header text.
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Ok, so I think I get how to link one that has a section headerā¦
Test - This is how you quote 
And I get how to make a link with a header in my own postā¦ So if I wanted an anchor link without doing a header, I would use the <a name="NAME"></a> function in my post to make an anchor link?
I see for the āwafflingā link, you added ### to make it a header, right? So if you were going to use the <a name="NAME"></a> in the post to make it a header, would it be adding <a name="Am I waffling"></a> in front of Am I waffling? on that post?
(correction: <a name="Am I waffling">Am I waffling?</a> ? )
(ETA - doing a subheading is probably the best and easiest way, I just got curious since you mentioned another way )
(testing it out)
@Ian_Chimp I think Iāve got it now, thanks for your help 
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That one was actually already a header, so no edits needed. The anchor links werenāt working right (probably because it predates the auto-header feature), so I gave it a tickle.
You can see a few anchor links in the PotW - Vote for the Winner posts, and some sneaky ones in a table in the Welcome Topic, and some in a details section in Forum Badges 
.
For longer ones, you canāt have spaces, but underscores and hyphens are fine (eg am-i-waffling).
Thereās a limitation to the auto ones, where it adds a number to the end (the nth header in the post), so if you go back and add another in the middle it throws everything off.
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[quote="Lovehoney_Brenna, post:5, topic:257636"]
<div align="center">
<big>Testing & Reviewing FAQs </big>
<small>(click on the arrow in the header to expand in post) </small>
<br>
[/quote]
Nice gif @Ian_Chimp ā¦ not really forum related but how did you create a gif of what you were doing?
I did not. I stole the one from the Forum How-To
But I did make one the other day just for fun. I found a āscreen recorderā in my phoneās drop down menu, and just used that. 
Iām not sure on size and quality though, as I only had a quick play.
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Doh - yes, should have recognised that!
Hmmm, Iām going to have to have a play and see if I have something similar. It would be very useful for demonstrating Forum or shopping site stuff sometimes 
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The How-To could use a tweak or two as well. @Kitty-Cat01 mentioned a while back about adding some info on the different ways to add links, and gifs might be good for that.
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So Iāve been having a little play with creating a .gif from recent how to upload a review enquiry.
@Lovehoney_Brenna (and I know this wonāt be answered until Monday as weekends off are essential!) would this sort of .gif be acceptable to generally post?
It is an animated .gif generated from phone screen recorder video of Lovehoney website using GIF Maker, GIF Editor. I have gone with compressed version which reduces quality but makes it a 4MB upload.
Thoughts or suggestions on improving it @Ian_Chimp (or anyone else)?
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The one from the How-To looks to be 3.8MB, so this one is comparable size-wise. It may be worth doing a topic of āstandard onesā, and people can quote/copy them from there rather than keep making new ones?
So a āgif templateā post would look something like this:
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I think thatās a great idea 
. Might be better if they are recorded from a desktop (like that one appears to be?) though I think itās fairly clear what I pressed in mine having the cursor definitely makes it clearer . What do you think?
ā¦ I do have a Bluetooth mouse though, I might see if I can get that to play with my phone as that would work. It will have to wait though as I need to go out. I might wait and see if we get the go ahead from Brenna too but then open to suggestions on stuff people eould find useful to see.
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I think it depends on how different the mobile vs desktop views are for each thing. If most people use mobile, then maybe that would be the better one to do a gif of? Though the mouse arrow is very useful.
You could maybe force Mobile view from desktop, and see how that looks?
https://lovehoneyforum.com/?mobile_view=1
(and desktop from mobile, just for fun)
https://lovehoneyforum.com/?mobile_view=0
You may need to refresh the page after for it to take effect.
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