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1. TomDolan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I have a 'Contact Me' form on a page of my blog. How can I put a link on each page that will bring my visitor to the Contact Form without having a contact Form on each page?

   Thanx, Tom

2. dave-p
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   There is a 'Text' widget that you could put a link in, and add to your sidebar.

3. TomDolan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Dave-p,

   The Text widget you mention, say I name it 'Contact me' and get it into my sidebar, how would I link it to my Contact form. I have the Contact form on my About page. My thinking is that bringing a visitor to the form on my About page might encourage him/her to view the About info too. Suggestions?

   Thanx for your input,
   Tom

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try adding a link to your About/Contact page immediately after the Loop in your theme's single.php template file.

5. TomDolan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi esmi,

   Thank you for the response. Took me awhile to check back...didn't think anyone was interested. But here is esmi, again. But frankly,

   I don't understand this: "Try adding a link to your About/Contact page immediately after the Loop in your theme's single.php template file."

   Since our last communique, I have advanced, but I have yet to touch the .php files. They look daunting. I have become more comfortable assaulting the css.style I can say. So,

   How do I locate this Loop and what would the link say?

   Thanx, esmi.

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'd strongly recommend reading the Loop documentation. Once you understand the Loop basics, a lot of other things will start to make sense. But in the meantime, a simple WP Loop starts with:

   <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

   and ends further down with:

   <?php endwhile; ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

   So when I mentioned about adding something after the Loop, I meant after the <?php endwhile; ?><?php endif; ?> lines. So look for those 2 lines near the bottom of your single.php file and immediately after <?php endif; ?> add something like:

   <p><a href="full_url_to_contact_page">Contact Me</a></p>

   Once you add the real url of your contact page, it should place a link to that page at the foot of every single post.

7. TomDolan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   esmi,

   The world may be flat, but I didn't fall off. Been workin' on the video post's, haven't been ignoring your suggestion.

   So I located <?php endif; ?> When you say add this:
   <p>Contact Me</p>

   Should it look like this:
   <p>Contact Me</p>

   Every time I go near the editor I get woozy.

   Thanx again.
   Tom

8. Saildude
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What if you manually put the "Contact Me" on each page and made it a link to your About page or where the contact form is located. You need to put the "Contact Me" manually where you want it.

   I use this method on my site on a regular basis, I refer to other Posts that have information related to what you are reading or that will help you do the homework (I have a modest safe boating site), I also have a manually built table of contents page that has the title and sometimes more information on a link.

   No code and not too fancy but does what I needed done.

9. TomDolan
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   esmi,

   Sorry for the last message to you it was corrupted when I did paste/copy of the code in your message.

   What I was saying is not 'Contact Me' but rather, I input what I thought was the "real url" taken from url bar of my web contact page. I simply wanted to be exact as I haven't done any tweaking with php, yet.

   So I'm willing to give it a go if that's what you mean. And by 'immediately after' do you mean No Space between ?> and <p>.....

   Thanx, Tom

10. TomDolan
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    Hi Saildude,

    Thanks for the interest. I might try that method. One of my issues is simply that I don't yet understand how to correctly design a link.

    For example, if I want to put a link in the sidebar, my questions are: what does this link look like? How do i place it where I want it? How do I write it so that it points to the place I want it to?

    Setting up this WP blog has taken more time than I thought it would but I'd still be closer to the beginning than to the end if many of the features weren't point-clik. Although in my defense, I have learned a bit and have taken some chances in the css.style editor.

    Thanx Saildude, Tom

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