Fixing broken links to CBIF

I'm sorry - I didn't explain the problem clearly.

I know how to make comparison pages on CBIF. But what I don't know, is how to put those links on a BG page. With their old links, I could hide that big long ugly link behind some text. But now I can't do that.

This is one of the old links - the ugly long link is hidden.
(compare images of all three species)

If I try that with one of their new links, it doesn't work.

Does that make sense?

If I understand the problem correctly, you are using BBCode syntax which uses a left square bracket and the letters "url" and an equals sign and then the URL itself, a right square bracket, then the text you want to display, then a left square bracket, a "/url" and a right square bracket. Whew.

The problem with this is that the right square bracket is used both to end the URL (for BBCode) and as part of the actual URL that CBIF wants to use.

There are two solutions. The first is to use regular HTML hyperlink syntax instead of using BBCode.

The second is to use the encoded versions of [ and ] (namely %5B and %5D) in your BBCode link to prevent BBCode link from recognizing the right square bracket.

I have done the same comparison link below, the first using an HTML hyperlink and the second using encoded brackets. If this is not your actual question ask again and I'll try again. :)

this link entered as an HTML hyperlink

this link entered as BBCode

A very quick easy fix for the broken links is to insert: SpeciesBank/ after ca/ in the url.
Not all the links are broken - the butterfly links are fine, and there are few links to lists that work. But all the ones that go to pinned moth images are broken.

I'm slowly working my way through your list - although I'm not fixing links in individual people's posts - just on the info pages.

I fixed all the links on this list that were not individual postings, and that were moth photos. (Butterfly links work fine.) There are still many more broken ones that I run across - I'll fix them when I see them.

That's just what I needed!