Turning page into link

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  florisvb · Member · Jun 4, 2008 at 2:18 am

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  I’m using the ‘contempt’ theme, and would like one of the nav-bar buttons to be a direct link to another website of mine. How can I do that?

  I tried using “Image Galleries” as the title, and it almost works, it just creates two buttons, one of which is blank (no title) and just links to the page titled ‘Image Galleries’. Ideally I would simply have that virtual page removed.

  Any help would be greatly appreciated,

  thanks!!

  – Floris

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  vivianpaige · Member · Jun 4, 2008 at 2:32 am

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  I don’t think there is any way to use the page navigation buttons to connect to another website. But you can use a text widget.

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  florisvb · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 1:53 am

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  Thanks.. well I’ll just stick with what I’ve got. Just seems like a glitch wordpress could easily fix and then there wouldn’t be any problems.

  Look at my nav bar and you’ll see what I mean: http://artinnature.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 5:08 am

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  I don’t think it’s a glitch; I think it’s deliberate architecture. They have no particular reason to allow you to build other websites right into your navbar.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 10:36 am

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  @vivian & raincoster: But florisvb has done it (I had also suggested it in another thread 4 days ago). You simply put a link as the title of the page. His problem is just the extra blank button.
  
  @florisvb: The blank button is a glitch of the Contempt theme; if you do the same thing on other themes no extra button appears.

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  jentech · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 3:47 pm

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  I am also interested in this, but have had no luck. Can someone please clarify how I make a page inot a link? I tried inserting the html into a page title but that didn’t work. Any suggestions?

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 4:29 pm

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  I’ve absolutely never heard of it working that way before. It’s always been stripped out to my knowledge.

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 4:30 pm

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  Unless, of course, we’re not talking about blogs on WordPress.com. Those can do it easily.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 9:43 pm

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  @jentech: You go to Write Page, put <a href="desiredURL">desiredNAME</a> (minus the ticks) in the title box, click publish. But make sure the name you assign is at least two words (separated by a space): I just found that the trick doesn’t work with single words.

  @raincoaster: I did it 4 days ago in my test blog and it worked (let me remind you that, when I suggested it, you offered me your advice on how to paste code here). I repeated the experiment now and it works (with the provision I mention above). And, yes, I’m talking about wordpress.com, no upgrades.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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  Ah, the ticks become a frame! I keep on learning…

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 13, 2008 at 9:45 pm

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  Then that’s a big change. They didn’t used to allow any formatting or HTML whatsoever in the titles. Thanks for finding it and posting.