How to get name links to show up in posts?

This is probably a silly question, but I’ve tried to figure it out on my own, and can’t seem to get it.

[name]How[/name] do you get the links to show up when you mention a name is a post? [name]Do[/name] you have to go in individually and and link them all back one by one? That seems rather tedious, especially since lots of times there are a LOT of names being mentioned…

Thanks for any help with this!

Also, why did [name]How[/name] and [name]Do[/name] link back, but when I mention actual names it doesn’t!? very frustrating.

Amylin, the name linking happens automatically, but you won’t see it when you first post; I think you have to post and then refresh the page. But it’s part of the magic that our engineer [name]Hugh[/name] built into the site (and the reason we switched to the new forum software a few months ago.)

It only links to names that our in our database – and weirdly, [name]How[/name] and [name]Do[/name] are names but some different spellings may not be in the db.