# Linking to indivudual posts - could we have a button?

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**Created:** [January 8, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-indivudual-posts-could-we-have-a-button/223452 "2004-01-08T17:28:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-indivudual-posts-could-we-have-a-button/223452/1 "2004-01-08T17:28:33Z")

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I know you don’t make changes here too often, but I was wondering if you’d consider adding a “link” button to allow us to easily link to individual posts. It’s fairly simple to do, actually. Just a little addition to the postbit template. Then you can just click it (or right-click and copy the target addy) and you’ve got your post-specific link.

Here’s how I did it on my site (it’s vBulletin 3, but I think the same will work for 2.x.x):

```auto

<a class="smallfont" href="showthread.php?p=$post[postid]#post$post[postid]">Link</a> 

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Of course that “Link” could be replaced by an image to make it match up well with the edit and quote buttons.

Anyway, just a friendly suggestion. Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-indivudual-posts-could-we-have-a-button/223452/2 "2004-01-08T19:21:29Z")

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They don’t mess with the VB code 'round these here parts.

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**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-indivudual-posts-could-we-have-a-button/223452/3 "2004-01-08T19:47:15Z")

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I’m confident they won’t implement this change on the SDMB, but I thank you **Slacker** for the idea. I’m going to implement it on my vB version 3.0 installation here at work.