Text Widget Links. If you would like to add a link in your sidebar but don’t know how to write HTML code, the easiest way is to start a new post (make sure it is empty) and use the Visual editor to create your link. After you create the link, switch from the Visual editor to the Text editor. If your post was empty when you started, the only HTML code in the editor should be for your link. If it’s a simple text link it would look similar to: If you use an image as the link, it should look similar to: Copy all of the HTML code in the editor and paste it into a Text Widget. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Image Links.
To insert a link using an image from your computer, follow these steps: Go to a post or page editing screen. Click the Add Media button.Upload a new image, or click the Media Library tab and click the image you’d like to use as a link. You’ll be able to see the image’s Attachment Details. Choose the Custom URL option under Attachment Display Settings. Type in the URL to which you want the image to link to. Click the Insert into post button.The image is inserted into your post and linked to whatever was typed in the Link To field. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ To insert a link using an image stored somewhere else on the Internet, follow these steps: Click the Add Media button.Click the From URL link.
Adding an image link in your sidebar couldn’t be easier – simply use the Sidebar Image Widget. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Email Links. We don’t recommend creating email links because spammers often use scripts to scrape web sites looking for email addresses. If you create email links, you may see an increase in spam. We recommend using a contact form instead. Another alternative is to put the email address on your blog with spacing or by spelling out the symbols. Examples: example at myblog dot com or example @ myblog . com If you would still like to create an email link, you can with the following HTML: You can type that code into the Text editor or into a text widget and customize it accordingly.
Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Download Links. You can upload the documents to your WordPress.com blog using the Add Media icon. For a list of filetypes we support, see Accepted Filetypes. Note: The following processes are outlined particularly for users who wish to upload a document and add its download link to a blog post or page. If you are seeking to simply upload a document to your blog’s Media Library (no download link), you can check out Media → Add New in your dashboard. From Your Computer The following process describes uploading a document from your computer to your blog’s Media Library and inserting a download link into a post or page. Go to Posts → Add New or Pages → Add New.Click on the Add Media icon found directly above your editor.Simply drag and drop your files into the box that appears, or click Select Files to choose a file from your computer to upload. Click the Insert into post button.You should now have a working download link to the file in your new post or page. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ From URL Help us improve:
Link Categories. You can manage a blogroll (a set of links) using the Links menu in your Dashboard. These links will display on your blog if you have added the Links Widget from the Appearance -> Widgets page. To manage link categories, click on Link Categories in the Links menu: The following screen will load: To add a new category, use the Add Category form on the left. Fill out the category Name, add a Description (optional), and then click the Add New Link Category button. The link categories you create will appear in the list on the right. The Links column on the far right shows the number links assigned to each category. Default Link Category If you don’t assign a link category for a new link, it will be assigned the default link category. Link Categories Screen Options The Link Categories screen can be configured in different ways using Screen Options. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation.
Import & Export Links. You can import links from other systems into your WordPress.com blogroll. First visit the Tools -> Import page. Then click Blogroll on the Import screen. There are two options when importing links. You can import links from an existing blog, or you can import links from a file you have saved to your computer. Links can be imported if they are saved in OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) file format. To access the links file for an existing WordPress.com blog, type in or if you have exported an OPML file containing links, click the Choose File button to choose that file from a local disk. To finish, click the Import OPML File button. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ You can export your links by visiting and then use the Save File option in your web browser (usually by clicking File -> Save As… but the exact wording may vary depending on your browser).
Help us improve: Edit a Blogroll Link. You can manage a blogroll (a set of links) using the Links menu in your Dashboard. These links will display on your blog if you have added the Links Widget from the Appearance -> Widgets page. To manage your links, click on All Links in the Links menu: The following screen will load, with a list of all your links: To delete a link, hover over the link name and click the Delete option that appears below it. You can use the filter option to show only one category at a time, or to show all your links. To edit a link, hover over the link name and click the Edit option that appears below it. Video Watch the “Editing your existing list of links” video from WordPress.tv.
Editing your existing list of links <p>JavaScript required to play <a hreflang="en" type="video/mp4" href=" your existing list of links</a>. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Add a Blogroll Link. You can manage a blogroll (a set of links) using the Links menu in your Dashboard. These links will display on your blog if you have added the Links Widget from the Appearance -> Widgets page. To add a new link, click on Add New in the Links menu: The Add New Link page will load, which looks similar to the image below: ↑ Table of Contents ↑ Name Module In the Name module, add your link text. Web Address Module In the Web Address module, add the site’s URL, beginning with Description Module In the Description module, add text that describes or explains the link.
Target Module In the Target module, choose where the link will open when clicked. _blank forces the link to open in a new window or browser tab, depending on how the visitor has configured their browser. The Link Relationship (XFN) module provides a simple way to represent the human relationships behind your links. Advanced Module Categories Module Use the Categories module to organize your links into categories. Save Module. Shortlinks. You may already be using one of the popular URL shorteners, such as bit.ly or TinyURL, to publish shortened links on Twitter or other services.
WordPress.com has its own URL shortening feature, wp.me, so that you can quickly and easily get shortlinks to your blog posts/pages and share them with the world. Shortlink from Post/Page Editor Go to Posts/Pages -> Add New or open an existing post/page in editing mode.Directly under the title field, next to the post/page Permalink, you will see the Get Shortlink button.Click Get Shortlink and a dialog box will appear with the post/page’s shortlink. Copy it and share it with the world. ↑ Table of Contents ↑ You can also get the shortlink of any WordPress.com post/page from the Admin Bar.
Go to whatever post/page you want to get the shortlink for.Click on the blog name in the left hand corner of the Admin Bar and look for the shortlink box near the bottom. Copy the shortlink and share it with the world. Why use wp.me? Help us improve: Links Menu (Blogroll) As bloggers we often link to our friends, our favorite posts, and popular web sites. Links make the Internet what it is. Without them it would be very hard to get from one site to another. WordPress.com gives you many different ways to use links on your blog. The Links menu in your dashboard can be used to create a blogroll.
Adding links to your blogroll doesn’t do anything for your readers unless you display them on your blog. Help us improve: We're always looking to improve our documentation. Links. A link is a word, group of words, or image that you can click on to go to a new page or a new section within the current page. There are a couple of ways to add links to your posts or pages. You can use either the Visual editor or the Text editor, as described below. For more information on the differences between the Visual and Text editors please see this support doc. If you want to create a list of links to your favorite blogs or sites in your sidebar, please visit the Links Menu (Blogroll) support page.
If you’d like to customize the links in your navigation menu, check out the Custom Menus support page. Highlight the text you want to link.Click the link button on the toolbar.In Visual mode: In Text mode: In the popup that appears, enter the URL you want to link to. After you’ve entered the URL, click Add Link.In Visual mode: the highlighted text will be underlined and blue to let you that it is linked.In Text mode: highlighted text will be wrapped with the HTML link code.