How to make URL the actual website text

Glad to help.

Where or how exactly are you getting hyperlinked URLs? On the front-end post? Is it via the Auto-Display settings? Or some other method, like in email alerts? Please be descriptive and help me to understand the context, so I can try to provide accurate information asap, thank you.

Front end user posts something and includes a website address, on the post itself it has a hyperlinked “URL” rather than the actual website address the user submitted. Example link below

https://thewordpresstester.co.uk/2024/08/01/flash-deal/

So the linked URL is displayed via the plugin’s Auto-Display URL setting, correct?

Yes, correct.

Thanks.

So currently the plugin provides three placeholder variables for the URL setting:

%%url%%
%%author%%
%%title%%

The url variable displays the submitted URL, the author variable displays the author, and title displays the post title. There is not a variable that displays the site name, mainly because there is not a field for it, so how would the plugin know which name to use.

As a workaround, something generic like “visit site” or similar could be used as the anchor text, for example in the Auto-Display plugin setting:

<p><a href="%%url%%">Visit site</a></p>

I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further information.