{"id":1068,"date":"2011-09-28T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T03:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2013-03-29T00:55:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T00:55:12","slug":"create-a-link-in-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/create-a-link-in-wordpress\/affordablewebsitestips\/tutorials","title":{"rendered":"Create a link in WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a text link in a WordPress page or post.<\/p>\n<h3>Creating a text link in WordPress<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>First navigate to the page you want to link to, then highlight and copy the URL in the address field.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edger_alan_poe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8376\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"edger_alan_poe\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edger_alan_poe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edger_alan_poe.jpg 538w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/edger_alan_poe-300x219.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/a> &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Next, log into your WordPress admin and go to the page or post you want to create the link in.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure the 'Visual' tab is selected over your content area.<a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/visual_tab_wordpress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1070\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"visual_tab_wordpress\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/visual_tab_wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/visual_tab_wordpress.jpg 458w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/visual_tab_wordpress-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Use the mouse to highlight the text, you want to turn into a link.\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/readmore_link.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8377\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"readmore_link\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/readmore_link.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/readmore_link.jpg 600w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/readmore_link-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Click the 'Insert\/Edit Link' icon.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1069 alignnone\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"create_link_wordpress2\" src=\"http:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/create_link_wordpress2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/create_link_wordpress2.jpg 458w, https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/create_link_wordpress2-300x76.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Paste the URL in the 'URL' field and click the 'Add link' button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your link is created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to create a text link in a WordPress page or post. Creating a text link in WordPress First navigate to the page you want to link to, then highlight and copy the URL in the address field. &nbsp; Next, log into your WordPress admin and go to the page or post you want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,143,4,6],"tags":[182,168,183],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-affordablewebsitestips","category-internet-tips","category-tutorials","category-wordpress","tag-insert-link","tag-link","tag-wordpress-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8374,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/8374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2slick.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}