Help for authors timid about technology
There are two ways to insert a hyperlink into a WordPress site. In this post, I will be teaching you both.
Way #1 Blogroll
One way is by adding a link to the blogroll. This puts a link on the sidebar on every page on your site. You will need to have a blogroll widget somewhere in your site for this to work.
Blogrolls are becoming outdated so don’t make this your primary link space. Use the text of your website instead.
Way #2 Inline Hyperlink
The better way is to insert the link into a post. Typing out a domain like www.ThomasUmstattd.com without making it a link is unprofessional.
The better way is to make the text link directly. So instead of putting www.ThomasUmstattd.com you would put Thomas Umstattd. People know that blue text = a hyperlink.
How to insert a link in WordPress:
- Go to the web page you want to link to.
- Copy the URL. It should start with “http://”
- Write the text you want to be a hyperlink. It is good to be descriptive and avoid the phrase “click here”
- Select the text.
- Click the make link button in WordPress. It looks like this
- Paste the URL from step one into the link field.
It looks like this:
- Then click insert.
Your link should turn blue like other links around the web. You can also use a WordPress Hotkey to insert the link.
That’s it! If you have questions feel free to leave a comment below.
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Doing links in WordPress will happen about 80% of the time you use WordPress. This is some of the basic concepts of WordPress that you need to know. Good Post!
I manage a Tutorial series that focus on basic topics at http://www.runningwordpress.net
I’m glad that there’s still people like you who promotes the use of WordPress.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks, easy to do with good directions.
I thoroughly enjoyed this post
ha! thanks, I couldn’t figure this out the other day.
WHat do I do if the link tab is shaded out? Thanks
Can you explain how to link to a page in the wordpress site without the page showing up as a tab?
Thank you.
HUGE help! I had been struggling with this, and now I can link as I please.
Thank you! It seems very obvious now that I’ve done it.
thanks.i figured it out
Perfect!!
The link button is shaded out in the visual screen. In the text screen I can click on it but it doesn’t work. I paste the HTML address in and write a word or two for title, and I see the coding in my text but when I hit update, and then view my page, the link/title isn’t there, the word is just missing. I have been trying to figure this out for months…
So simple that I now feel like a biffa! Thanks for this