Making my email a link??
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I want to make my email address a link. I have it in my sidebar where I added text. I’ve searched the FAQ’s but couldn’t find anything for this. Help please?
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A link that opens the email editor….so that when someone clicks on it, it opens their email to be able to send an email.
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Even though it’s easy enough to do, it’s a bad idea unless the email address is encrypted. It attracts spam. I use the email encoder here http://www.coderlab.us/playground/email_encoder.php
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Thank you for your reply. Well, if it attracts spam, maybe it’s best not to do it, then!
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As long as you encode it, it will be OK.
But why not use a contact form instead? That way, your email address is not exposed at all. http://faq.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/how-do-i-make-a-contact-form/
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Thanks again Vivian. I’ve saved the link for the encoder but have no idea how to use it to put it on my page.????
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I thought you wanted it in the sidebar? If so, all you need to do is open up a text widget and post the code in there.
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I opened the text widget with the same text I’ve already put on my page. I used the encoder but couldn’t copy/paste from it to the text. I tried using both HEX and HTML. When I right-click, my option is to ‘Select all’—there was no copy option.
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I use the Hex 70% option. Click on the “highlight all” button at the bottom. Then right click and select copy. Then open your widget and paste it.
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I got it! I didn’t know you had to add a new Text widget for each set of text! That’s what was wrong. I’m going to learn all of this one day! Please be patient with me. :)
Thank you,
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Well, it didn’t HAVE to be a new text widget. You could have added the text to the bottom of the existing widget. But as long as you got your result, that’s great!
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