Links
Editor, Links, Pages, Posts, Toolbar
Contents
- How to Create Links in a Post or Page
- How to Remove Links with the Visual Editor
- Links containing the "at sign" symbol
Related
There are a couple of ways to add links to your posts or pages. You can use either the Visual editor or the HTML editor, as described below. Read more about the difference between the Visual and HTML editors here.
If you want to create a list of links to your favorite blogs or sites in your sidebar, please visit the Links Menu (Blogroll) support page.
If you’d like to customize the links in your navigation menu, check out the Custom Menus support page.
How to Create Links in a Post or Page
- Highlight the text you want to link.
- Click the link button on the toolbar.
In Visual mode:

In HTML mode:

- In the popup that appears, enter the URL you want to link to. If you want the link to open in a new window/tab when clicked, check the box.

URL – The URL of the link (include http:// at the start for external websites)
Title (Optional) – Title of the link when a visitor hovers over it (a small tooltip will appear with the title) - Or, if you want to link to one of your own posts or pages, use the search box to quickly find what you’re looking for. Simply enter a keyword or two that appears somewhere on the post or page you want to link to.

- Click the title of the post or page you want to link to, and the URL and Title fields will automatically be filled.

- After you’ve entered the URL, click Update.
In Visual mode: the highlighted text will change to the color blue with an underline to signify a link:

In HTML mode: highlighted text will be wrapped with the HTML link code, creating a link to the URL you specified. (The example below links to WordPress.com.)

Here’s a quick video demonstrating linking to your previous posts:
How to Remove Links with the Visual Editor
To remove a link in the Visual editor, highlight the text and click the broken link icon:

Links containing the “at sign” symbol
If you try to put this (for example)

into the Add Link page, the “@” gets removed for security reasons and unfortunately means that your link will not work.
To get around this, you need to instead enter #64; as in the image below:

Please be aware that if you re-edit the link the “@” once again disappears so you’ll need to redo the above.
Last modified: April 28, 2012
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