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In this post, you will learn how to Add Links in WordPress pages.
Link is a connection from one resource to another. Adding links to your pages or blog posts help you to connect to other pages.
Following are the simple steps to Add links in WordPress.
Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress.
Step (2) − List of pages created in WordPress will get displayed as shown in the following screen. Select any of the pages to add links inside it. Here, we are going to add links in About Us page.
Step (3) − Select any of the sentence or word where you want to add link. Here, we will add link to the word Lorem.
Step (4) − When you click on the Insert/Edit link symbol then the following pop window gets displayed.
Following are the fields present in the Insert/edit link.
- URL − Enter URL you want to link.
- Link text − Insert text you want to enter into the link.
- Open link in a new window/tab − Open your link page into the new tab or window. Check the box as required.
- Or link to existing account − Add links to an existing content page by selecting the page from the given list. Click on Or link to existing account and the list of pages and posts gets displayed as shown in the following screen.
After selecting the particular page or post from the list, the links get created in the URL field as seen in the preceding screen. Click on Add Link.
Step (5) − When you hover on the word Lorem then the link tooltip gets displayed as shown in the following screen.
Click on Update button to update the changes in your page or pos
Editing Links
Following are the simple steps to Edit Links in WordPress
Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages as shown in the following screen.
Step (2) − You can view the list of pages. When the cursor hovers on the About Us page, then a few options get displayed below About Us. Click on Edit as shown.
Step (3) − Hover on the word Lorem (Link for word Lorem was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Links), and click on the pencil symbol to edit the link as shown in the following screen.
Step (4) − You can change or edit your link by selecting the page from the existing list. In this case, we have selected the About Us page.
After selecting the particular page or post from the list, then click on Updatebutton.
Step (5) − When you hover on the word Lorem then the link tooltip get displayed as seen in the following screen.
Click on Update button to update the changes in your page or post.
Deleting Links
You can remove the unwanted links which you don’t need for your website or article.
Following are the steps to Delete Links in WordPress
Step (1) − Click on Pages → All Pages in WordPress.
Step (2) − You can view the list of pages. When the cursor hovers on the About Us page, then a few options gets displayed. Click on the Edit button as shown in the following screen.
Step (3) − Select the word which you had already linked i.e. Lorem (Link for word Lorem was created in the chapter WordPress – Add Links), and click on the Remove Link Symbol as seen in the following screen.
Step (4) − When you hover on the word Lorem, there will be no tooltip of the existing URL. The following screenshot shows that the link has been deleted.
Footnote
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