hyperlinks

Text hyperlinks

If you have a Redback Graphics installed CMS website.

Firstly, go to the web address or page you want to link some text to and “copy” the web address from the browser. You can then “paste” that address when inserting the link as described below.

Login to your Dashboard, under “Dashboard”, click once on “Pages”, then once on the page title of the page you want to add/edit a link.
In the editing box that contains your page content, double-click the text you want to link (or highlight the text with your cursor), then choose the icon to “Insert/edit link” (in line of icons above editing box), then insert the URL of the web address or page you want to link to. Then click the “Update” button to update the page. To link to an external website, while editing the link, choose from the “Target” options, “open link in new window” to make the browser open a new window for the linked website.

Adding an Email hyperlink
Select the text you want to create an Email link to, then choose the icon to “Insert/edit link”. Add link of mailto:info@redbackgraphics.com.au (your email address preceeded by “mailto:”, no spaces) and the link is done. Click Update to update the page as normal.

Tip 1
It’s always handy to have another browser window open to view the “public” side of your website to see the changes without having to log in and out of your Dashboard to see the public website. The changes will be live immediately. Use CTRL+F5 in your live website browser window to force a refresh of the web page you are viewing to see the updated link.

Tip 2
Always backup your website before doing any updates until you are very familiar with updating pages and images etc.
See backing up your website.

Posted by Redback Graphics in Wordpress Tips
Image hyperlinks

Image hyperlinks

If you have a Redback Graphics installed CMS website.
This assumes you have an image on a page, if not you might need to read adding an image to a page first.

Then, to add or edit the hyperlink to that image
Login to your Dashboard, under “Dashboard”, click once on “Pages”, then once on the page title of the page you want to edit an image.
In the editing box that contains your page content, click on the image you want to add/edit a hyperlink to.
Click once on the image, then choose the icon to “Insert/edit link” (in line of icons above editing box), then insert the URL of the web address you want to link to. Then from the “Target” options, choose open link in new window to make the browser open a new window for the linked website. Then click the “Update” button to update the image, and then the “Update” button of the page to update the page.

To remove a hyperlink from an image
As above to access the page and select the image. Then choose the icon to “Remove link” (next to icon to “Insert/Edit link). Update your page and you’re done.

Tip 1
It’s always handy to have another browser window open to view the “public” side of your website to see the changes without having to log in and out of your Dashboard to see the public website. The changes will be live immediately. Use CTRL+F5 in your live website browser window to force a refresh of the web page you are viewing to see the updated image and link.

Tip 2
Always backup your website before doing any updates until you are very familiar with updating pages and images etc.
See backing up your website.

Posted by Redback Graphics in Images, Wordpress Tips