insert link in widget in coraline
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Hello,
I am trying to insert a link (to my 2nd blog) into the widget area in my 1st blog, but I don’t seem to be able to find the correct widget. Ideally i would like to have just a hyperlink somewhere on the widget area, can anyone please tell me how to instal it (without using the blogroll, as I would need this separately). I am using the coraline theme.
Many thanks
MeikeThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I have tried to do a text widget, but the link would only show up in the text, not when I put it into the title area. If I leave the title area empty, i do get the link to show, but I do not have the same formatting as the other widgets – which i would like to keep.
So i am looking for a widget that would allow me to insert just a hyperlink into a title (without showing the address, but a title)
Not too sure if I am making myself clear here, please let me know if you need more clarification.
Many thanks
Meike -
I would use a text widget and place the link in it. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
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“Not too sure if I am making myself clear here”.
No you’re not! You want a link that will look like the title of other widgets (bold all-caps) or like the content of other list widgets (colored, with a bullet before it)? Both are possible in a text widget.“I am trying to insert a link (to my 2nd blog) into the widget area in my 1st blog”.
Please link to both and tell us which is which.“without using the blogroll, as I would need this separately”.
That’s not a real restriction: if you assign link categories to your links, you can add several Links widgets, assigning one link category to each one. -
Timethief: thanks, I tried that (putting the link in the text field of a text widget) but then i don’t like the formatting if I leave the title area empty and I don’t really want a title and then the link underneath that. I would rather have the title as the link (without anything in the text field). But as I tried to insert the link into the title, it doesn’t work as link anymore.
Panaghiotisadam: Am really sorry that I am not making myself clear, I find it a bit hard to put into words what exactly I mean.. esp as I am new to all this (as you clearly can tell!)
I have just created a text widget with the title ENGLISH to the left widget bar (http://methinksaboutbooks.wordpress.com/) This is exactly how I would like it to look (that’s what I meant with ‘formatting of other widgets’, i.e. the fat line before the words (and the words in fat and upper case) and the thin line after).
BUT in addition to how it is right now, I would like the words ENGLISH to be a hyperlink to another blog (which is not yet published, so you cannot see it – not sure that you would need that anyway).
So the question is: How do I get the hyperlink behind ENGLISH or which alternative widget can I use to create a hyperlink with the same formatting (lines etc)?
I think by using a blogroll, I would always end up with either different formatting (the same problem as I had with the text widget) or with a title and the link underneath, right? so that wouldn’t do it either..
Many thanks for your patience and help!
Meike -
Ok, paste this into a titleless text widget:
<h3 style="font-size:13px;text-transform:uppercase;border-bottom:1px solid #ccc;border-top:3px solid #000;padding:2px;"> <a style="text-decoration:none;" href="URL OF OTHER BLOG HERE" target="_blank"><span style="color:#000;">English</span></a> </h3>This is a precise (but linking) simulation of the titles of your widgets.
And now that this little exercise is over, I’d seriously urge you to reconsider: if this is going to be a link to your other blog, how will anyone be able to tell? In my opinion, a link to your other blog should be a lot more obvious. Why not add it to your top nav menu instead? Or to your sidebar, but make it more prominent (larger, colored, more explicit text, maybe an image link)?
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Brilliant, that worked a treat! Thanks Panaghiotisadam!!
The reason for this link is that my other blog will be exactly the same blog but in ENGLISH rather than GERMAN (like you sometimes find the link to different languages on homepages). So ppl who speak German will not need to go to my other blog as it is the same but in a different language.
I have set my German blog as my main blog (because that is the one I started with) but I find that I am posting for english blogs as well, as I do not want to restrict myself to one language. But my link in wordpress is locating ppl to my german blog, and I would like them to have the opportunity to easily find the English version, without having to remember to link my english blog (knowing myself, I am likely to forget and English speaker will be lost on my German blog).
Now that you know the background, do you still think it would make more sense to put the link somewhere else? I thought it would be quite nicely located under my profile pic and still easy to spot while being unobtrusive for my German friends. I really appreciate your feetback!
But maybe you know of a better alternative in general?
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First it worked okay, but the last two post have a no-show pic. Where the hell do it come from? l don’t wqant that carp. Can anyone tell me how to fix it?
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