Links

The link balloon of the editor knows your site. Select some text, click Link (or press Ctrl/Cmd+K) and pick what to link to:

List	Shows	Stored as
Bookmarks	the anchors in the same text	#name
Pages	the pages of the Pages module or Structure, as a tree	{page_url:ENTRY_ID}
Entries	the latest 100 entries of the Linkable channels	{entry_url:ENTRY_ID}
Templates	the Linkable Templates	{template_url:TEMPLATE_ID}
File manager	the EE File Manager (or Assets), to link to a file	{file:FILE_ID:url}

Links to pages, entries and templates are stored by ID, not by url: when a url changes, the links keep working. In the editor they show the title of the page, entry or template instead of the tag. Every link can open in a new tab or be marked as downloadable.

Entries

Available from v6.0.0

Select the channels in Linkable channels to show the Entries list. Empty (the default) hides it, so large sites don't get long lists by accident.

{entry_url:ENTRY_ID} becomes the url of the entry when the template is rendered, like ExpressionEngine does for Live Preview:

1. the Pages/Structure url of the entry, when it has one;
2. else the Preview URL of its channel, with {entry_id} and {url_title} filled in (e.g. blog/entry/{url_title});
3. else the Channel URL of its channel followed by the url title.

All entry links of a page are looked up in one query. A link to a deleted entry, or to an entry without a url, gets an empty href; the Broken links page lists them.

Screen reader text

Available from v6.2.0

A link text like "Read more" says little to someone who jumps from link to link with a screen reader. Fill in Screen reader text (aria-label) in the link balloon to tell them where the link goes:

<a href="{page_url:12}" aria-label="Read more about our opening hours">Read more</a>

• Screen readers read this text instead of the link text, so start with the visible text: voice control users say what they see.
• Leave it empty when the link text is clear by itself, a descriptive link text is always better.
• It works with every Allowed HTML setting, also Strict.
• The field is not shown for a linked image: there the alt text of the image describes the link.

Type @ to link

Type @ followed by (part of) a title to insert a link without opening the link balloon. The list shows the pages (with their uri) and the entries of the linkable channels (with their channel). Entries are searched in all their entries, not only the latest 100. An entry that is also a page is shown once, as a page.

Pasted links

A link to a page of your site that is pasted or typed as a full url (https://example.com/about) or as a path (/about) is stored as {page_url:ENTRY_ID} when the entry is saved, also when it opens in a new tab. Links to files in an upload directory are stored as {file:FILE_ID:url}, so ExpressionEngine knows where a file is used.

Link tags in templates

The tags also work in your templates, outside Wyvern:

<a href="{page_url:12}">About us</a>
<a href="{entry_url:345}">Read the review</a>
<a href="{template_url:7}">Contact</a>