Trying to link text in sidebar image
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I am a newbie, but I have reviewed the forums and the linked posts from Harpervalley and from timethief on this topic. I have followed all the steps, but obviously, I am doing something wrong as it doesn’t quite work.
In my blog’s main sidebar (customersrock.wordpress.com), I have added an image successfully by dragging in a text widget. However, every time I paste this in to the widget: <img src=”http://customersrock.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/power150small.thumbnail.jpg” alt=”power150small.jpg” /> and save it, it looks like this when I open the text widget box again: <img src=”http://customersrock.wordpress.com/files/2007/01/power150small.thumbnail.jpg” alt=”power150small.jpg” />
For some reason, it keeps dropping the link information; the image info is fine.
What am I doing wrong? I don’t know html (yet!), so I am not sure how to debug this one.
Thanks!
Becky
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The easiest way if you do not know html IMO is to shut off the visual rich text editor first => Dashboard => Users => Your Profile ( find the “Use the visual rich editor when writing check box” and uncheck it then click “update options”.
This is the no coding by the blogger – let the editor do all the work solution.
Go to your write page and upload your image. Next pass your mouse over the entire image code to select it. Now click “link” and type in the url. Click OK.
Next you copy the entire result (i.e. the linked image code) and you paste it into a text widget and save it.
If you need help with creating a text widget then this will help.Perhaps the instructions Mark has in the FAQs will be more understandable to you. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/18/put-an-image-in-your-sidebar/
You can also insert images into your blogroll
http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/10/27/how-can-i-post-buttons-and-images-links-in-my-sidebar/P.S. Harpervalley came from Blogger and imported her blog. She was and is adept at html coding and you are not so that’s why I created alternative instructions for non-coders like you.
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Thanks. I am fairly technical, I just haven’t done html coding before (but I need to learn it!).
When I tried what you suggested, it linked to the location of my photo rather than the website I want the photo to link to.
Can you break apart the html coding for me? I am assuming the a means start and /a means finish, and the brackets start and end the command. I am also assuming href means where to go for the link? When I did what was suggested, it put it two href lines, one for the site I wanted to link to, and one for the location of the image. It also has the img src line, which is what I am assuming it uses to put the picture there.
I just don’t understand why I can paste in the link fine, but when the text widget is saved, it changes what I pasted in. (BTW, WP changed the code I pasted in my original post above, so you can’t really see what it did).
ANy ideas?
Thanks a bunch! I would love to be able to credit the website that is giving me this image to use!
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Nevermind – I just got it to work! I think I cleared it up for myself when I was walking through the explanation. I also had deleted an extra a/ at the end when I deleted the second href, and that was what it didn’t like!
Thanks again!
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Becky,
can you post here to let us know the code you used to resolve this issue – I’m having the same problem and also am not familiar with html coding!
No matter what I try it doesn’t seem to work.My main problem is tying in my WordPress image file html code with my img code!
Thanks,
Steve -
Hi Steve,
I don’t really know how to use code, so I can’t help you there! I just took the instructions step by step, and I got it to work at last. Sorry I can’t be of more assistance. Good luck.
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