When I put the html for a link in a text widget, the text specified for the link appears on the blog, but the link is not active. Can anyone help with this. It seems so elementary, but I can't get it to work.
[resolved] Links in text widget are not active - help! (22 posts)
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vtaylor100
Posted 3 years ago # -
Posted 3 years ago #Is this so elementary that everyone thinks I just a clod and not worth bothering with? I've looked at all the documentation. I have programmed for many years. I'm just not familiar with WordPress, and when I do what seems obviously the right thing, it doesn't work.
In the case in point, I pasted the text from feedburner for establishing a link to an email subscription page. I also tried a general hyperlink code piece. In both cases, no active link. My site is roylat.com. Look at the bottom of the sidebar for "Jackson Forum." This was entered as html hyperlink code in a text widget. But, only the text appears, not the underlying link.
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cipote
Posted 3 years ago #Hola vtaylor100,
I just tried this and I'm able to do it.
I would make sure that your html code is correct.
example:
This is a link to whatever you want.
If the html code is not the issue, try switching your theme to the default one to see if it's theme related...
Good luck! -
Can you paste here what you put in the widget? Nothing shows up, even on view source.
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Posted 3 years ago #Ah sorry, it was converted to a link...
Here is what I have
<a href="YourSiteAddress/">This is a link</a> to whatever you want. -
Did you try putting in other text in there? Like
This is a testor something banal like that? -
Posted 3 years ago #Thanks for the help.
Here is what I currently pasted into the text widget at roylat.com:
Jackson Forum BlogI then saved the changes. The text appears on the site, but again it is not active.
When I try to edit the text widget, only the text, not the HTML code is available for editing.I did try this with the default them, but to no avail.
More thoughts?
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Posted 3 years ago #Yes, I can put whatever text I want.
See this image for example.What is the code you are using?
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Try pasting something that IS NOT a link. Just paste in this
This is a test.and see what shows up. It may be a problem with HTML in your text widget, or it may be the widget now showing anything. Can't tell until both are tested. -
Posted 3 years ago #Whoops,
on this post, my text was converted to a link, which is of course what I want to happen in my text widget. Here is the actual text before conversion, with href mis-spelled to stop the conversion.
See if this gets it posted right.
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Posted 3 years ago #Well, I can't seem to get the html not to convert into a link. Suggestions?
Maybe "backticks" Here it is in backticks:
<a href="http://jacksonforum.org/blog/">Jackson Forum Blog</a>When I paste in text in the widget, it appears as text just fine.
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Posted 3 years ago #This is the code you should use:
<a href="http://jacksonforum.org/blog/">Jackson Forum Blog</a> -
Posted 3 years ago #This looks like the code I pasted in above your last post. Am I missing a difference.
One thing I noted is that the text in the widget appears as html code after I finish entering it. I can return to edit it and see the html code again. As soon as I Save Changes for all widget editing (i.e., make the changes live), the html code disappears from the widget. It no longer shows up as an option for editing.
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Posted 3 years ago #Well, I didn't exactly resolve this, but I found a workaround. If I put html code on the second line of the text widget editing form, it is displayed as an active link! So, if I skip the first line and just use the second line, it comes out correctly. Weird.
You can see the result a roylat.com
Thanks for your efforts to help cipote and Ipstenu.
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It sounds like you may have some plugin playing merry cob with that feature, but for the life of me I can't imagine why! At least you got it working!
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If I put html code on the second line of the text widget editing form, it is displayed as an active link!
Are you trying to put HTML in as the title of the text widget? Because the first line is the title, the box below that is the content.
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Posted 3 years ago #Otto42
It would be great to have the documentation make this clear. It would have saved me many hours.To say that the first line is the "Title" is not exactly correct, because the first line shows up as content on the blog page.
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How it shows up on the blog page is really up to the theme, not WordPress. Nevertheless, it is the "Title", regardless.
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vtaylor100, it is documented.
On http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets
To add text or code to the text Widget, there are two sections to add content. In the top line, enter a description or title for that particular widget. In the next section of the form, enter the the text or HTML code for the widget.
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Posted 3 years ago #Thanks for the correction. My error. I did read the section on text widgets in the documentation, but in my hurry, I did not read far enough. WP score 1; vtaylor100 score 0.
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smgct
Posted 3 years ago #Well I never found it either, but I found this thread and it certainly straightened out my problem. Thanks!
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usamazing
Posted 3 years ago #please any one can help me ?
i cannot removed these words
"You may want to put some text here"
http://www.amazingeventplanner.com/VendorSubmit.php
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