How to Add Link to WordPress (3 Easy Methods)

add link to WordPress

Want to learn how to add link to WordPress in 3 easy methods? Link is the way of connecting one website to another website. WordPress itself has many ways to add link among them we’ll show you the three different methods to add link to WordPress.

Before starting, Log in to your WordPress Admin.

Adding a link to WordPress posts and pages

First of all, Go to WordPress Dashboard >> Posts >> All Posts.

Choose the post that you want to edit and click on Edit option.

WordPress comes with a user-friendly Visual Editor. At the top of the text editor, you can see the varieties of options. Select the text and then click on the link icon to insert a hyperlink.

For example, we took the WordPress text to linked up.

Once you clicked on the link icon, it will come with the pop-up window. Insert the link and other boxes:

After filling up all boxes, click on Add Link Button.

This is how you can create a WordPress link. See the difference between WordPress Posts and Pages.

Adding a link to WordPress Text Widgets

If you don’t know then you can add link to WordPress using the Text Widgets. The text widgets simply allow you to add text and basic HTML on it.

If you have noticed or not, WordPress comes up with visual and text editor. Once you completed the above method, Go to a Text editor. You can see the HTML code of that link. Copy the HTML link and Go to Appearance >> Widgets. You can see varieties of widgets option.

Select the Text Widget and drag it within your desired sidebar. Now, you can paste the HTML Link on it.

Once you’re done, click the Save button.

Adding a link to WordPress Gutenberg Editor

In 2018, WordPress comes up with New Editor and that is “Gutenberg”. If you like to know detail about it then see WordPress New Editor Gutenberg.

In this post, we will show you how to set up a link in Gutenberg editor.

First of all, Log in to your WordPress Admin and Go to Dashboard >> All Posts.

Choose the posts that you want to edit and click on “Edit” Button.

Select the text that you want to link, that will bring the pop-up with several options.

Click on the Link icon and paste the URL address that you want to add and click on the Apply button.

Congratulations! you’re done. Learn how to add Dofollow and Nofollow link in Gutenberg.

Wrapping UP

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