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  1. tjwenger
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I'm trying to Add links to the Left hand column. Where would I go to accomplish this? I'm not a code monkey I'm a hardware guy.

    Thanks in advance.

  2. whooami
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    good question, and pretty much unanswerable unless we see what you see.

  3. tjwenger
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Well thats just it. I know basic html and how CSS works, But I don't know which php template to edit, or to even post here. If I go to http://tjwenger.com/blog on the left hand side there are only two links - "Home" and "About" - and I want to add to this list. Where do I accomplish this? I scoured the php templates looking for a location, but I couldn't find one. But I couldn't find a spot as well in the Wordpress manager.

    Sorry for the rookie inquisition. I'm trying to educate myself as much as possible before asking these questions.

  4. moshu
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    For more "links" there you go into your admin panel > Write > Write Page (not post!!!) and create many new Pages. They will all appear there.

    Manually, you edit, probably, the sidebar.php file of your theme.
    e.g. http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Files#wp-content.2Fthemes

  5. tjwenger
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Yeah. Thanks for the heads up, thats actually really useful information. But I want to add external links to the lefthand sidebar (I think its referred too as the "main sidebar" in wordpress). IE I want a link that goes back to my main site with its pages (not tha main blog site). "Sidebar.php" handles only the right as far as I can tell. But the Pages is a cool feature.

    Maybe I'm asking to do this impossible then? Edit the links on the Main sidebar?(I would find that hard to believe)

  6. tjwenger
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    PS - Anytime I add a Widget on the main sidebar, the existing 2 links disappear.

    Thanks in advance, as I am really quite perplexed. And I Apologize if this is an easy fix.

  7. BernardBorealis
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Go into the source code and add the links manually. In my theme the file is called leftbar.php, but it will vary from theme to theme. Just add the links after the chosen php tag.
    <a href="http://mydomain.com">My Domain</a>

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