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AnchorHandler Release status: unmaintainedCategory:Unmaintained extensions
Implementation	Tag Category:Tag extensions
Description	Allows inserting <a> anchor tags into wikitext
Author(s)	Ike Hecht (tosfostalk)
Latest version	0.2 (February 2018)
MediaWiki	1.29+Category:Extensions with manual MediaWiki version
PHP	5.3+
Database changes	No
License	GNU General Public License 2.0 or later
Download	Download extension Git [?]: Browse repository (GitHub) Gerrit code review Git commit log Download source tarball Category:Extensions in Wikimedia version control
Parameters $wgAnchorNamespaces
Hooks used ParserFirstCallInit Category:ParserFirstCallInit extensions
Quarterly downloads	3 (Ranked 113rd)
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The AnchorHandler extension allows inserting <a> anchor tags into wikitext. By default, it simply passes through the text within the <a>...</a> tags. It can be configured to actually parse and convert the anchor tags to working links in certain namespaces. This is especially helpful when importing raw HTML into a wiki.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted AnchorHandler folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/AnchorHandler
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'AnchorHandler' );
  

• Configure as required.
• Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

Configuration

$egAnchorNamespaces

Tells the extension to actually convert the anchor tags to links in the specified namespaces. Example:

$egAnchorNamespaces = [ NS_MAIN ];

See this list of namespace constants.

See also

• Extension:HTML Tags – Adds <htmltag></htmltag> tags, that can be used to display HTML tags within wiki pages that may otherwise be disallowed by the MediaWiki parser.