Adding image links to my blog

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  kiyansobhani · Member · Mar 24, 2009 at 2:04 pm

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  Does anyone know how to add images with links to your blog? And I don’t mean making a post with a link in it, but rather a permanent imagine somewhere on the homepage with a link to it.

  Thanks,

  My blog is http://kiyansobhani.com/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 24, 2009 at 2:35 pm

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  kiyansobhani,
  Use a text widget to put it into your sidebar. How to make an image link:

  A text link normally looks like this:
  <a href="URL_OF_WEBSITE">TEXT_TO_CLICK</a>
  if you want to a picture to serve as a link, instead of "TEXT_TO_CLICK" in between the tags, you place an image tag, which looks like this:
  <img src="URL_OF_IMAGE"/>
  To put them together, they would look like this:
  <a href=""URL_OF_WEBSITE"> <img src="URL_OF_IMAGE"/> </a>
  Instead of the text becoming a link, the image becomes a link.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 24, 2009 at 3:05 pm

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  typo alert (extra ” marks):
  <a href="URL_OF_WEBSITE"><img src="URL_OF_IMAGE"/></a>
  To make the link open in new page:
  <a href="URL_OF_WEBSITE" target="_blank"> <img src="URL_OF_IMAGE"/></a>
  and for some reason, wp seems to insist on alt=”” />

  <a href="URL_OF_WEBSITE"><img src="URL_OF_IMAGE" alt="" /></a>
  or
  <a href="URL_OF_WEBSITE" target="_blank"><img src="URL_OF_IMAGE" alt="" /></a>

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 24, 2009 at 3:11 pm

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  The image “alt” tag is part of the web standard, and Google at least will not index images without it.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 24, 2009 at 3:13 pm

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  Ah, so that’s it! Thanks. I always use it, and get a lot of hits on images, so now I know why!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Mar 24, 2009 at 3:19 pm

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  Well, that is, I fill it in:
  alt=”descriptive words”