# How to automatically turn certain words into links

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 19, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-automatically-turn-certain-words-into-links/288632 "2009-05-19T07:48:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-automatically-turn-certain-words-into-links/288632/1 "2009-05-19T07:48:00Z")

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I’ve been googling around trying to find a way to turn certain words (on a site i’m working on) into links. The purpose is \*\*not \*\*to create advertisement.

I’ve seen this kind of thing on lots of sites, which is why I was a bit surprised that I can’t find anything about it. The only thing I’ve found so far is a wordpress plugin called “link a dink” which does exactly what I want, except I’m not using WP (see [http://www.biggnuts.com/link-a-dink/](http://www.biggnuts.com/link-a-dink/))

Does anyone have any idea?