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November 18, 2008 · 9:31 pm

WordPress: How to create an underlined link to an article within a post

(I am putting this together because of my own frustrations in trying to figure out this process on my own. I did countless Google searches as well as looking through the WordPress FAQ and came away empty. My tech mentor in Maine talked me through it successfully.)

Find an article that you want to use in your blog.

Click on the link url to highlight it.

Right click on the highlighted link url and choose COPY.

Go into your blog and select WRITE.

Write your post. Within the post, highlight the word(s) that you want your readers to click on to get to the article.

Click on the chain symbol (10th symbol from the left).

Paste the article url into LINK URL. Leave TARGET, TITLE, and CLASS alone.

Click INSERT.

The word(s) you highlighted in the text should now be underlined and a different color than the rest of the text.

Your underlined word(s) will not open until you have PUBLISHED the post.

When the post is published, you can go into your blog and click on the underlined word(s) and the article will show up in SNAP SHOTS. If you click on the url at the top of the SNAP SHOTS box your article will appear in readable size.

WordPress: How to create an underlined link in your blog to a photo

This explanation is about how to put a photo into your WordPress blog and just have the underlined title showing in your blog. When the reader clicks on the underlined word(s) a picture comes up.

Go into Write so that you are where you would put a blog entry together.

Click on the symbol beside “Add media:”

Go into Media Library – I will assume that you have already downloaded pictures there.

Beside the photo, you want from the Media Library click SHOW.

Highlight the LINK URL and COPY it by going into EDIT for that purpose.

Click on the gray area to get back to WRITE POST.

Where you have the written part of the post, highlight the word(s) that would best refer to the photo you copied the URL of.

Click on the chain symbol (10th symbol from the left).

In LINK URL paste the link url you copied from the media library of the picture.

For TARGET, use “Open link in a new window.” Then INSERT.

The word(s) you highlighted in the post should now appear underlined and in a different color than the rest of the text.

At this point, you CANNOT click on the underlined word(s) and have it open into a picture. You can only do that after you have PUBLISHED the post.

Go into the blog as a reader would and click on the underlined word. A small version of your picture will appear in SNAP SHOTS. Click on the URL at the top of the SNAP SHOTS box and the picture will be the size you wanted it to be.