Title: Button?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Button?

 *  Resolved [SamWhatley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samwhatley/)
 * (@samwhatley)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/)
 * I LOVE the button feature. However, every time I use it, the phrase that I have
   linked to another page, brakes.
 * For Example, I created a button for “Certification” and I’ve linked to another
   page I’ve made that discusses certification in detail. I’ve linked the word to
   the page and it works beautifully. And then when I add the button, it disables
   the link.
 * Why? And whats the point of a button if it doesn’t work?
 * Does anyone know how to fix it?

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 *  [the.Zedt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doryan-gray/)
 * (@doryan-gray)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792839)
 * The button IS a link, so you cannot add a button over a link.
    Just write your
   text as you want it to appear inside the button, select it and add a button over
   it. Then paste the link in the “url” attribute, like: [mantra-button-light url
   =”[http://www.google.com/&#8221](http://www.google.com/&#8221); target=”_blank”]
   This button links to Google[/mantra-button-light]
 *  Thread Starter [SamWhatley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samwhatley/)
 * (@samwhatley)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792858)
 * Thanks so much theZedt!
 * But what if I’m linking to a page within the site? How would I do that?
 *  [the.Zedt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doryan-gray/)
 * (@doryan-gray)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792862)
 * To be more explicit, the “button” function does not work like the built-in link
   function. There’s no automatic way to choose or type in the link.
    After you 
   click the “button” button 🙂 you need to manually type in the URL to (whatever)
   page you want that button to link to, as the url= parameter of the shortcode.
 * As in the example I gave you before,
    [mantra-button-light url=”[http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/some-page-on-your-website/&#8221](http://www.yourwebsitehere.com/some-page-on-your-website/&#8221);
   target=”_blank”]Link to a page[/mantra-button-light]
 * To get the URL and paste it in the url= parameter, you navigate to the page you
   want to link to (or see it in the Pages list) and copy its URL/link.
 * You can change target=”_blank” to target=”_self” to make the button open the 
   link in the same page.
 *  [Deena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkadeena/)
 * (@malkadeena)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792927)
 * How do you change the colours of the buttons?
 *  [thezedt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thezedt/)
 * (@thezedt)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792928)
 * The ‘light’ and ‘dark’ buttons have predefined colours.
    The ‘colour’ button 
   has a definable background colour. These are detailed in the theme shortcodes
   [demo page](http://demos.cryoutcreations.eu/wordpress/mantra/shortcodes).
 *  [Deena](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkadeena/)
 * (@malkadeena)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792929)
 * Yeah, I figured it out, thanks though.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-5/#post-3792929)
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