Title: Adding links menu
Last modified: April 11, 2018

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# Adding links menu

 *  Resolved [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/)
 * I have just installed wordpress and want to add a menu list of links on the right
   side of the page. How do I do that?
 * Is it a menu or a widget? I added a widget but it didn’t give me the space to
   add any links. How is this done? Thanks
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fadding-links-menu%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10171012)
 * The theme you are using (currently) is Twentyeleven theme. The sidebar is widget
   area. You can put any widget into it including menu link.
 * The only thing we have to do is choose a page template that has sidebar. We can
   do this by assign the page template within page edit, look for the page template
   drop-down metabox at right side, if it’s not there pull down screen option at
   the top right and checkbox for it to appear.
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10172224)
 * I still don’t see where I can type in the url for each link. I’m in menus and
   thats for navigation on the site. I just want to have a list of links to different
   web sites. How do I do that?
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10172226)
 * I have the side bar, just can find a way to add links. Maybe I need a text box.
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10172240)
 * I tried to add links but they don’t work. I’ve done this before and didn’t have
   these problems. Maybe I need to try another theme that works better.
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10172258)
 * Now I have links that I never added. How do I edit the list of links?
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 *  [paulwpxp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulwp/)
 * (@paulwp)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10172828)
 * Now you have that page template with sidebar assigned, that’s why it shows up.
   What is in there right now is Meta Widget, to get rid of it just click to remove
   it, or sometimes theme set to show this as a default when there is no user put
   in widget yet. What you need, in this case, is a Custom Menu widget, and when
   we select our own widget the default one will automatically disappear.
 * See this info here.
    [https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets)
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10173558)
 * Thanks, but where is the place to check so the link opens in its own tab?
 * target= blank
 * This is not how I used to go about adding links. Very confusing.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/).
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/).
 *  Thread Starter [wine4all](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wine4all/)
 * (@wine4all)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10174700)
 * I solved my problem, for a list of links I use a text widget, that is what I 
   used in the past. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-links-menu/#post-10174700)
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