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  nonewhere · Member · Feb 11, 2017 at 9:39 am

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  I am trying to create a sidebar to add links to other sites. I am using Karuna as my temple. Easy instructions to accomplish this would be very helpful

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

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  marklchaves · Member · Feb 11, 2017 at 5:33 pm

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  Hi there,

  1. Go into your WordPress dashboard.
  2. Go to Appearance.
  3. Go to Widgets.
  4. Select the Text widget.
  5. Add it to the Sidebar.
  6. Add your links into the Text widget using HTML.

  Check these out for more help.
  
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

  
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 11, 2017 at 5:51 pm

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  @nonewhere The site you’ve linked to at nonewhere.wordpress.com is currently using the Twenty Ten theme and the last post was from 2011. Is that the site you need help with? If you are referring to a different site, please give us the site URL.

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  nonewhere · Member · Feb 14, 2017 at 5:54 am

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  this is the site I am working on:
  https://eastmeetswestflyfishing.wordpress.com/

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  nonewhere · Member · Feb 14, 2017 at 5:59 am

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  Mark,

  Let’s start with the simple. Nothing on my page stated the word dashboard. I don’t know where to find it. In the old style of wordpress I could find it. The new style is too complicated to move around in. BTW I was wrong about the page I was working on. It is: https://eastmeetswestflyfishing.wordpress.com/

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  marklchaves · Member · Feb 14, 2017 at 6:08 am

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  Hi @nonewhere,

  Two suggestions:
  1) From your ‘new style’ window, look for WP Admin — last option bottom left menu (lower left corner of your page). Click on that to get to your dashboard.

  2) Or go to https://eastmeetswestflyfishing.wordpress.com/wp-admin/ to get to your dashboard.

  –m

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  nonewhere · Member · Feb 14, 2017 at 3:31 pm

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  OK Mark, thanks. I am almost there. I have the inks but they just show up as text, not actual links you can click on. There is also something called blogroll, which I will ask about later. Even though I checked the boxes to show the link and the image of the site, these do not come on. Can you guide me to the next steps? Thank you.

  Here is what it looks like:

  https://eastmeetswestflyfishing.wordpress.com/wp-admin/customize.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Feastmeetswestflyfishing.wordpress.com%2F

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  marklchaves · Member · Feb 15, 2017 at 1:32 am

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  Nice, @nonewhere!

  If you recall, in my first reply step #6.

  Add your links into the Text widget using HTML.

  This means you need to know HTML. Here’s a quick tutorial about links.

  
  HTML code syntax for a hyperlink

  <a href="url">link text</a>

  Replace url with your http:// link. Don’t remove the double quotes. Replace the link text with your text for the link. Here’s an example.

  ` Visit our HTML tutorial

  Read up on links.

  https://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_links.asp

  best,
  mark

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  marklchaves · Member · Feb 15, 2017 at 1:34 am

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  Sorry, forgot to finish the escape up above. It should read.

  Replace url with your http:// link. Don’t remove the double quotes. Replace the link text with your text for the link. Here’s an example.

  <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/html/">Visit our HTML tutorial</a>