How to use a text widget

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  tiramit · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 5:40 am

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  I’d like to show some links to older posts in a text widget in the sidebar. I’ve selected the widget, and there’s a title box and a space below. So I give it a title like “Popular Posts’ or something and then what goes in the box below? Copy and paste the links to the posts? Or do I key in the titles of the posts and paste the link into each title?

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 6:13 am

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  copy the links and paste them into the text widget – use the html code

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  tiramit · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 6:38 am

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  Do you mean go into the editor and copy the permalink, the web address with the title of the post separated by hyphens?

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 6:50 am

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  I use the Post / Page editor – make a link using the Visual editor – save draft – then switch to Text (html) and copy the html code and paste it into the text Widget

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  tiramit · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 6:54 am

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  Copy the html code of what exactly? Sorry I really don’t know…

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  auxclass · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 6:56 am

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  The link you want to insert into the text widget

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  tiramit · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 7:01 am

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  Sorry I don’t understand. You said go into the Post/Page editor… that’s the editor that shows the whole post? I can’t see how to make a link… I usually copy the url and go into Links…

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  tiramit · Member · Feb 13, 2014 at 8:50 am

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  Could someone clarify this? Do I copy the permalink in the editor – the one that has the title of the post separated by hyphens – and paste that into the box in the text widget?