Adding and Editing Links
Adding Links
With the WordPress text editor, adding links to a post or page is simple. In the toolbar, there is an icon that looks like chain links. This is commonly used to symbolize hyperlinks. You can click this icon to insert a link into the text editor.
This will bring up a small dialog box that will prompt you to paste a URL or search from existing pages. You can paste your link or select your page, and then click the blue arrow to apply your changes.
Alternatively, you can make existing text into a link by highlighting it and then clicking the link icon. You can also highlight the text and use the keyboard shortcut Command (⌘) + K on a Mac, or Ctrl + K on Windows or Linux to get the same result. This will bring up the same link dialog box.
Editing Links
New Links
When you first add a link, in the dialog box there will be a blue button with an arrow next to a grey gear icon. As mentioned, the blue arrow button saves your changes. The gear icon brings up more link options.
Here you can paste the URL, and you can choose how that URL displays by filling out the Link Text box. For example, if you link to the homepage of this site, you can either paste the plain URL, https://sites.ewu.edu, or you can add link text so that the link displays as EWU WordPress Platform. Link text not only looks and reads better, but it is more informative to users of screen readers and therefore is more accessible.
Beneath the Link Text box is a checkbox that says "Open link in a new tab." Checking this box is highly recommended for external links or links that lead the user away from your site.
In link options, you can also choose to link to existing content on your site. You can search for a page with the search bar or scroll through your available options.
When you are done with link options, you can select Update to save changes or Cancel to discard changes.
Existing Links
When you select an existing link in the text editor by clicking it, the dialog box that appears will look slightly different.
Instead of the arrow and gear icons, there is a pencil icon and a broken link icon (see Removing Links below). If you click the pencil icon, you can edit your link again and the arrow and gear buttons will appear. Then you can access link options.
Removing Links
When you select an existing link, a broken link icon will appear in the dialog box. You can click this icon to remove the link and return the link text to normal. You can also select or highlight the link and press the same broken link icon in the toolbar, next to the insert link icon.