One of the features that I would love to see in wordpress core is having the text widget with a wysiwyg editor, just like the editor we use to create a new post or page and that makes it so easy for you to insert images, links and lets you easily play with your text without having to know code.
To add a link in your text widget, the html code you should use is this :
<a href=”http://yoururl“>some text</a>
The url might be an internal or external link in the form https://www.vivathemes.com , and some text , is the text visible to the user.
Sometimes when you want to point the visitor to an external site, you may want the new site to be opened in a new tab in your browser, so that the user stays in your website. In this case you add to the code target=”_blank”
So, the new code is :
<a href=”http://www.yoururl” target=”_blank”>Some text here </a>
If you want to have some space above the link, if it will be in the form of read more, like in the widgets in right sidebar of our website, you can simply add a <br/> before the link code, which will cause the link to go to next line.
Hi, that plug in doesn’t seem to work in the latest version of wordpress, any other recommendations?
haven’t seen any other plugin similar to that lately.
Hello,
a bit clarification. The new code should be:
Some text here
The code does not work for republica. Can you please provide advice on how to get it to work? Thanks!
The code works fine with all themes. If you need more help please hit us up in the forum, thanks.
That’s a standard HTML code.
It’s missing the .com in the URL though.
Also, if you are copying and pasting it, the double quotes would need to be replaced. Just replace these (”) with these direct from your keyboard (“).
Some text here
I am unable to add a link in a WordPress widget. When I type the correct html, the stupid WordPress editor automatically changes
to &rt;
Evidently it thinks it’s smarter than I am and that I really want < and quote characters to appear in the display.
Thank you very much. I dot want to use a plugin. Less plugins, less problems.
The code for adding a link to text widget helped me. Thank you for this info.
Most helpful! Thank you
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thank you soooo much, I really need this code
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