• Resolved phred42

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    new at this – I’m not a php coder.

    How do I get an image that includes a link into the sidebar?

    I’ve tried things with sidebar.php but it dosent work

    any help?

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  • I used the widget sidblog and these are the steps I took:
    created a new category,named it asides1
    Created a post with only the image in it. (You could make the image a link while you are at it.)
    Made the title of the post what I wanted the title of the image to be
    Went to the sideblog control and set it to show that category with only one post.
    In the widgets control window I put the widget for sideblog where I wanted the image to be.

    In the future when I will want to add another image to the sidebar, I will create another category and do the above and then tell sideblog to show both categories

    Its a work around, but hey, it works. And I did not have to dig into the code of the template to do it and can substitute other images when I want.

    Use a text sidebar widget. Just insert the html code:

    <a href="http://insert your link here"><img src="http://your image source here"></a>

    This will display your image, and clicking on it will open the link. You can add any text you wish using standard html code.

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    thanks capelyddol I’ll try that

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    thanks capelyddol I’ll try that

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    capelyddol thanks for the response – I’ll try that also.

    I”m a wuss – seems like this should be easier

    Thread Starter phred42

    (@phred42)

    Thanks both of you

    I ended up using capelyddol solution. Don’t know if it’s the most efficient but its’ working fine.

    Thanks again

    I’m used to inserting HTML links.
    I tried the Text Box widget from the Dashboard,
    found that it ignored my hyperlink.
    How can I place my own hyperlink, perhaps between SearchBox and “Categories”, to a page of my choice?

    It seems I’m saying capelyddol’s logical method did not work for me.

    capelyddol’s method didn’t work for me either.

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