Title: Linking to Email Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Linking to Email * [freedomtr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freedomtr/) * (@freedomtr) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-to-email/) * In the contact me page of our website I have the option to email the director and the chairman of the board. How do I hyperlink that? What do I put in there? * I entered the email address. Example: [john@johnsmith.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-to-email/john@johnsmith.com?output_format=md), but that doesn’t work. * Can anyone help? Thanks. Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * (@rvoodoo) * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-to-email/#post-1667255) * mailto: before the email address * `Email This Dood` * In a template * if you are doing it directly from the visual editor in the page editor just type what you want displayed… Mail This Dood * Then highlight the text, and click the link icon, looks like a chain * and type the mailto: and address bit Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Linking to Email’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [email](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/email/) * [hyperlinks](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hyperlinks/) * [links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/links/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 1 reply * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Rev. Voodoo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rvoodoo/) * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/linking-to-email/#post-1667255) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics