Title: Help with Code?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Help with Code?

 *  Resolved [Bella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bella/)
 * (@bella)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/)
 * I’ll start with – please forgive me, I’m new to this… and hope someone will have
   pity on me.
    I’d like to add text as a link to my sidebar and I am horrible with
   code. Can anyone help me? Thanks!
 * [http://www.ourmadhouse.com/blogs](http://www.ourmadhouse.com/blogs)

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 *  [estjohn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/estjohn/)
 * (@estjohn)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289072)
 * where are you wanting to add it? Under Links?
 *  Thread Starter [Bella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bella/)
 * (@bella)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289076)
 * I’m wanting to add it at the very top of the sidebar, a small blurb about me,
   then a link to the about me page.
 *  [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289078)
 * Look for:
 *  <li id="linkcat-2"><h2>Links</h2>
    <ul> <li><a href='http://mugglenet.com/' 
   title='All things Harry Potter'>Muggle Net</a></li> <li><a href='http://www.theonion.
   com/content/index' title='News Source'>The Onion</a></li> <li><a href='http://
   www.blingo.com/friends?ref=mn9mry5Ai%2BUZ7nzBZucpGHFSUcU' title='Search and Win
   Prizes'>Blingo</a></li> <li><a href='http://www.illwillpress.com/' title='Foamy
   Rocks'>Ill Will Press</a></li>
 *  </ul>
 * And just BEFORE add
 * <li><a href='http://newlinkaddress/' title='brief description of link'>Link Name
   </a></li>
 * Hope that helps.
 * edit: posted before Bella had replied…. I’d have to look more closely at the 
   coding to see where the link would be inserted to get it closer to the top of
   the page… maybe someone will get to it before I do. I have non-keyboard tasks
   I have to do now….
 *  Thread Starter [Bella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bella/)
 * (@bella)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289094)
 * Thanks llizard. You helped quite a bit!
 *  [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289102)
 * You’re most welcome, Bella. I’m glad it was useful. I see that you have now successfully
   added the blurb and link to the ‘about me’ page. Yay!
 * edit:
 * In the email link, you might want to replace your email address characters with
   character entities to help prevent robots from being quickly able to mine your
   address in order to send you spam:
 * Instead of @ in your coding, type
    `&,#064;` (without the comma) ampersand numbersign
   zero six four semicolon
 * You can also replace the letters in the link. For instance, instead of `href="
   mailto:`, you could type `href="&,#109;ai&,#108;to:` (without the commas after
   the ampersands – it is VERY difficult to display code in this forum)
 * More on character entities:
    [http://llizard.etherwork.net/cwc/charactmap.html#recommended](http://llizard.etherwork.net/cwc/charactmap.html#recommended)
 *  Thread Starter [Bella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bella/)
 * (@bella)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289118)
 * llizard, thanks for the advice. I made the changes you suggested, but for some
   reason this only works in firefox and not ie?
 *  [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289122)
 * Ah. Alas, the vagaries of IE… What exactly isn’t working in ie?
 * (edit: I just looked at your blog in IE6 and as far as I can tell, the email 
   link looks like it’s right)
 *  Thread Starter [Bella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bella/)
 * (@bella)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289135)
 * Strange – it does work now. More than likely that was user error (yeah, meaning
   me! LOL) Thanks again for all your help.
 *  [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [20 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-code/#post-289203)
 * You’re very welcome. Glad it’s working, Bella!

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