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WordPress: Add Links to a Webpage

There are many ways to add links to a webpage.  Here is the way to do it in wordpress.

1. Select the text on the web page you want to turn into a link.

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2. Then look for the icon shaped like a chain

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Click the Add Link icon and a box will pop up.

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A link has two main parts:

  • URL: this is the webpage that people will go to when they cick.
  • Link Text: These are the words that people will click on.

By selecting “Open link in a new tab”, a new tab will open.

When you click on update,  the link will be added.

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When you click inside the link text, a pop-up will appear that lets you edit or remove the link.

When you view the finished page, the link will have special colouring:

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HTML code

It is possible to edit the code that makes all this work. Somewhere in your editor you will see a botton or tab that says something like “HTML view,” “Code view,” or “Text”. Clicking on that will show you the code.

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Then you can see the code that makes this link.

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The link is created by an a-tag, highlighted in red below.

It is free to people attending, but there is a <a href=”http://www.meetup.com/pricing/” target=”_blank”>small monthly fee</a> that the organizer has to pay.

You can see that there are two parts,

  • Open tag: <a href=”http://www.meetup.com/pricing/” target=”_blank”>
  • Close tag: </a>

The part between these two are the link text.

 

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