Text Widget won't link to URL

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  blackswanestates · Member · Oct 1, 2013 at 6:19 pm

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  blackswanlake.org

  I put in a text widget “Black Swan Break In”, and linked it to a new page:
  http://blackswanlake.org/burglers-hit-and-miss-in-black-swan/
  but when clicked it says “page not found”.

  I haven’t done this in so long, I seem to have forgotten some missing step!

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

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 1, 2013 at 6:42 pm

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  It seems like the link in your widget is somehow truncated.
  blackswanlake.org/burglers-hit-a%E2%80%A6-in-black-swan/

  Check how the link appears in the text widget.

  You can also use an image widget for this purpose rather than a text widget.

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  blackswanestates · Member · Oct 1, 2013 at 7:28 pm

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  Hmmm…yes. I thought I’d copied out of the “perma link” window from the page info, but it does look garbled. Instead, I copied the URL from the actual page and pasted that in, and it seems to work, thanks!

  As for using a text widget rather than an image widget, I forget why I was told to do that – is it more flexible in some way? Seems like there were some limitations to image widgets. And I seem to be able to accomplish what I need to, using text widgets.

  Thanks for your reply!

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 1, 2013 at 8:03 pm

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  You’re welcome.

  Image widgets are very flexible. All you need are two URLs:
  1st the image in the Media Library
  2nd the place where you want the image to link to.

  Check out the Support doc for Image Widget.

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  blackswanestates · Member · Oct 1, 2013 at 9:42 pm

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  Thank you, I will check it out.