Linking my post's title to an outside link
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Hi there, I am trying to link the title of my article to an outside website. I am a writer and I would like to use my WordPress page as a way to collect links to all my online published pieces. I don’t understand what upgrade I need to purchase (if any) in order to do this. Can you help me? Thanks!
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Hi there,
Yes, it’s possible to link your post title to an outside link, I have tested it and it works but it’s not the best practice to link the title to the other site.
But still, if you want to do that you’ll have to use <html> for that.
Example:
Adding a link:
To add a link, we use the tag (the a is short for anchor).Here is an example of an anchor tag:
<a href="https://wordpress.com">Start blogging on WordPress.com</a>It will show you as following:
Start blogging on WordPress.com
this will be a clickable link which will re-direct to WordPress.comIf you want to learn more about how to use links follow this support document
https://en.support.wordpress.com/beginning-html/Also, check this following documents to learn more about links
https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/https://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/
Hope this helps!
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Correction
To add a link, we use the tag (the a is short for anchor).
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sorry corrected again
To add a link, we use the tag (the a is short for anchor).
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sorry corrected again
To add a link, we use the tag (the a is short for anchor).
<a>—– this is used for links as “anchor” tag for links. -
Thanks for your response, but I don’t quite understand this answer.
Let’s say my title of my post is How to Stop Global Warming – Ways We Can All Help
I want this title to be clickable, and take my readers to the article’s main website.
How do I type the title, and with what extra characters?
Thank you
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May I please say something here? When one clicks a post title on a site they do not expect to be hurled off the site and arrive on another one. In fact, that is a spammer-like behavior.
You need to use internal linking within the posts and let your readers know they are being redirected to another site. https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
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Hi there,
@timethief is correct it is recommended to use internal linking however if you still want to change your title link then you may use wordpress.com plugin(page-links-to) for it.
Here is one of the plugin which may help you:https://wordpress.com/plugins/page-links-to/maryreeddavis.wordpress.com/
Please note you can only install plugins if you have a business plan activated on your account.
Please refer the below articles to know more about business plans:
http://wordpress.com/pricing
https://en.support.wordpress.com/business-plan/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/seo-tools/Please refer this support article for more details for installing plugins: https://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/adding-plugins/
Hope this helps!
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Interesting timethief, thank you for pointing that out.
Given that I am not legally allowed to copy and paste the entire article onto my page, how would you recommend I direct readers to a different page?
Right now I’ve got my title, a featured image, and then the body of the article is just “Check out my latest post on how to stop global warming(link here) at Understand Solar!”
Here’s the post I am talking about if anyone wants to take a look:
https://maryreeddavis.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/how-to-stop-global-warming-ways-we-can-all-help/Can you guys give me ideas on how I can make the transition to my original post smoother or more professional? Or is this the best way, without paying for a WordPress administration membership and adding the link plug-in?
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You can add a link to it like “Read my full article at…”
But please also be aware WordPressdotcom is intended for original work, not for redirecting readers to 3rd party sites. Occasionally done it is not an issue, but if all the posts on your WordPressdotcom site are linking to some other website, regardless of the reason, that could be a violation of our User Guidelines.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/user-guidelines/
https://wordpress.com/tos/ -
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