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Note: This trick only applies to blogs hosted on wordpress.com. It doesn't apply to self-hosted blogs using the wordpress.org application.

When you create or edit a post on your wordpress.com blog, you can select a word range or an image and use the "Insert/edit link" tool to create a clickable Hyperlink to an external Web site, or another post on your blog.



In the "Insert/edit link" window there are two fields: "URL" -- where you enter the address of the Web site or post, and "Title" -- anything you type in this field appears as a floating "tooltip" when the the mouse cursor hovers over the link.

You can use the Link feature to add just a tooltip -- if you want. It's very simple.

• Add a link as normal. use any proper Web site address, and enter your tooltip.


• Ignore the "Open link in a new window/tab" checkbox.


• Click "Add link."


• Switch the editing view tab (top right corner) from "Visual" to "Text"


• Find your link and title in the HTML text.

If one lump turns out to be a <a title="Not a word but it 
should be!" href="https://www.sqwabb.wordpress.com/">hypothermic
</a> panhandler...

• Carefully delete just the Web site URL (in red):

If one lump turns out to be a <a title="Not a word but it 
should be!">hypothermic</a> panhandler...

Switch the editing view back to "Visual."

Now in Preview mode, when you hover your mouse over your "neutered" link word it will turn red and display the tooltip title, but that's all. In the actual post where I made a title link I used the "Select text colour" tool to colour the word similar to a Hyperlink to hint that that it might be worth mousing over.

That's it. I didn't say it was a really good trick.