Renaming hyperlinks

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  tiernantrail · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:13 pm

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  Can a hyperlink be renamed? ie. http://www.testhyperlinkname.com – instead of something like this showing up when you hover over link, maybe see something like ‘family’…or whatever….

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:15 pm

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  If you are not adept at coding then create a draft post or page that you will later delete and do the link creation in it. After you use the Visual editor click into the HTML editor and copy and paste the content into a text widget.

  See the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

  This is the general link model:

  <a href="URL HERE">Highlighted anchor text here</a>

  This is the visual result – it’s not actually linked here in the forum.
  Highlighted anchor text here

  1. Enter the relevant descriptive anchor text you want to link to first. Note that “here” is not a good choice. Use relevant anchor text to link to. Such as the dynamic category page titles in your case.

  2. Then use your mouse to highlight that anchor text. (If you don’t highlight the anchor text the chain icon will remain grayed out and not be usable.)

  3. Next, click the chain icon in the editor and proceed to create the link.

  Also note: For creating links in a text widget and adding images see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image
  Widgets have visibility settings that control which pages they appear on. See https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

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  tiernantrail · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:29 pm

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  Thank you! I will try this. I’m changing topic status to resolved because this makes sense and I’m sure will work. Thanks again for the quick reply.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:31 pm

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  You are welcome. :)

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  tiernantrail · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:40 pm

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  Actually, I wanted to change the name of the link when it’s hovered over, not the link you click on. Does that make sense? Is that doable?

  ie hyperlinktoclickon = http://hyperlink.com but when you hover over hyperlinktoclickon it reads something else like “photos” or whatever….instead of http://hyperlink.com.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:41 pm

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  See the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 5:42 pm

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  If that support doc does not address your question provide very specific and detailed information here first. Then type modlook into the sidebar tags on this thread for a Staff follow-up. How do I get a Moderator/Staff reply for my question? https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-help-in-the-forums/#how-do-i-get-a-moderatorstaff-reply-for-my-question Also subscribe to this thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting. To subscribe look in the sidebar of this thread, find the subscribe to topics link and click it.

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  tiernantrail · Member · Mar 6, 2017 at 6:18 pm

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  Thanks for the help and instructions. I just signed up today – am new to this….