Beginner’s Guide on How to Add a Link in WordPress

Adding links to your WordPress posts and pages is a great way to improve the user experience and make your content more engaging. By linking to related content, you can help users find the information they’re looking for more quickly and easily. You can also use links to build relationships with other websites and improve your website’s SEO.

There are two main ways to add links in WordPress: the classic editor and the block editor.

Adding Links in the Classic Editor

The classic editor is the older of the two editors, but it’s still the default editor for many WordPress sites. To add a link in the classic editor, follow these steps:

1. Go to the post or page you want to edit.
2. Click the “Text” tab at the top of the editor.
3. Select the text you want to turn into a link.
4. Click the “Link” button in the toolbar.
5. In the “Link URL” field, enter the URL of the page you want to link to.
6. (Optional) In the “Link Text” field, enter the text that you want to appear as the link.
7. Click the “Insert” button.

Adding Links in the Block Editor

The block editor is the newer of the two editors, and it’s the default editor for WordPress sites that are using the Gutenberg plugin. To add a link in the block editor, follow these steps:

1. Go to the post or page you want to edit.
2. Click the “Add Block” button and select the “Link” block.
3. In the “Link URL” field, enter the URL of the page you want to link to.
4. (Optional) In the “Link Text” field, enter the text that you want to appear as the link.
5. Click the “Publish” button.

Once you’ve added a link, it will appear as a blue underlined text in your post or page. When a user clicks on the link, they will be taken to the page you specified.

Here are a few additional tips for adding links in WordPress:

• Use descriptive link text. The text that you use for your links should be clear and concise, so that users know what they can expect when they click on them.
• Avoid using the phrase “click here” as link text. This is a very generic and unhelpful phrase, and it doesn’t tell users anything about what they can expect when they click on the link.
• Use anchor links to link to specific sections of your pages. Anchor links are a great way to help users navigate your website and find the information they’re looking for quickly and easily. To create an anchor link, simply add a pound sign (#) to the beginning of the link text. For example, if you want to create a link to the section of your page about contact information, you would use the following link text: #contact.
• Use rel=”nofollow” attributes to prevent spam links. Spam links are links that are added to your website by other websites in an attempt to improve their own SEO. To prevent spam links, you can add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to the links. To do this, simply add the following attribute to the link tag: rel="nofollow".

I hope this guide has been helpful. If you have any questions, please feel free to leave a comment below.

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