As you continue to add content to your work-from-home blog and start on new blogs or web sites you’ll find yourself adding a variety of links such as Ad scripts, text-links and navigation links to your sites and pages.
Whenever possible text links are going to be done using keyword anchor text - This is when you use your chosen keywords as the clickable text for the link.
Inserting Links into Posts:
To insert a link to a blog post it’s simply a matter of typing in your chosen keywords, high-lighting those words and clicking the link button on the post editor toolbar. see previous post Inserting My Projects Links
However, you will need to know how to create your own anchor text using the correct format in notepad ,for when you don’t have an html editor - don’t be concerned - it’s really easy.
Using Work From Home you would put the surrounding code in …
Adding Links to the Sidebar
There are a couple of ways you can do this and WordPress makes it really easy
- Using the Blogroll (or Links depending on which version of WordPress you use)
Simply go to the dashboard, click on blogroll and add in your chosen links and text - these will then be added to your Blogroll or Links section on the sidebar
- Using Text Widgets
If your WordPress Template is widget enabled you can use a text widget to insert links by using the anchor text format shown above
- Editing Sidebar Template
If your sidebar doesn’t use widgets (like the theme we use for the Million Dollar Blueprint) you simply need to go to Presentation >> Theme >> sidebar.php file and insert your links in using the above anchor text format.
Using Scrolling Link Lists
Even if you have a blogroll/links section or text widget you don’t always have to insert links that way. A blogroll can end up taking up half the page as they grow longer and longer … especially when you start adding all the links to your own sites you create.
Instead, add lists of links to a scroll bar. Using a scroll bar allows you to add as many links as you want but they will only take up a pre-determined amount of space. To see all the links, you just scroll using th scroll navigation buttons.
To encase your list of links in a scroll bar simply use this code:
The opening Scroll tag is: < div style=”overflow: auto; height: 200px” > < ul > (no spaces between brackets and adjacent character). You can adjust the height of the scroll box by changing the pixel (px) figure.
The closing Scroll tag is: </ul ></div ><br > (no spaces)
Adding links is as simple as pasting in the text link formatted URL between the link tags <li > </li > (no spaces)
To give the list a title just use H3 tags <h3 >List Title< /h3><br > (no spaces within brackets) and place above the scroll code.
All this can then can be either copied and then pasted into your sidebar.php file or into a blank text widget if your blog is widget ready. If you are using a text widget you don’t need to add the title code, just put the title in the title space provided on the widget.
The coding principles shown here work on html pages as well, so you can use this technique when you begin to create niche sites.
**Special Thanks to Vanessa for the scrolling links tip and accompanying images. Vanessa is a fellow member of the Million Dollar Blueprint**
