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Adding Text Links in WordPress

  1. Highlight the text you’d link to act as the link
  2. Click on the Link icon editor_insertlink1 in the editor options
  3. Type or paste in the URL to the page you’d like to link to
  4. Choose whether the link should replace the page you’re on, or open in a new tab/window
  5. Click the Add Link button

Linking to existing content on your website.

  1. Highlight the text you’d link to act as the link
  2. Click on the Link icon editor_insertlink1 in the editor options
  3. Click on ‘Or link to existing content’
  4. Scroll through the list, or search, and click on the relevant page you want to link to
  5. Choose whether the link should replace the page you’re on, or open in a new tab/window
  6. Click the Add Link button

[note color=yellow title=”NOTE”]

The editor has two modes, Visual and Text. editor_visualhtml1
In Visual mode the link button appears like this editor_insertlink1
And in Text mode like this html-edit_link1

[/note]

March 19, 2016 by Gary Filed Under: Tutorials

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  1. Dayno says

    November 12, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    Hi,

    Very helpful thank you. Will this also work for referral links?

    Kind regards,
    Ryan

    • Gary Sands says

      November 12, 2017 at 8:38 pm

      Yes it’ll work with referral links, just paste the link into the url box. Referral links are just links with one or more extra parameters added.

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