How can I add a link into the template Header using CSS

michaelbreed · Member · Apr 10, 2010 at 2:33 am
Copy link

Add topic to favorites
Please Help!

I need to add a link into the header at the top of my template. Can anyone tell me how to add this into the CSS? What would the code be?

The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
andrew · Member · Apr 10, 2010 at 5:18 am
Copy link
Your blog isn’t hosted here at WordPress.com. The forums at WordPresss.ORG would be more appropriate.
michaelbreed · Member · Apr 10, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Copy link
Actually, my site is hosted here at wordpress.com, it is not a self hosted site. Any ideas?
thesacredpath · Member · Apr 10, 2010 at 11:49 pm
Copy link
We don’t have access to the underlying theme files at wordpress.COM, and this isn’t something that can really be done with CSS. CSS is for styling, not for adding functionality.

There is this trick for adding an external link via the top navigation tabs, but staff seems bent on taking away some of the “tricks” we all have found so no telling if this trick will be one of the ones that go away. It isn’t entirely clean with the Pressrow theme, but it isn’t too bad.

Page tabs as extra links
kilibee · Member · Apr 11, 2010 at 8:38 am
Copy link
It can be done with a bit of clever thinking and good understanding of CSS!

Create a linklist, which contains only the link you would like to have in the header.
Now show that linklist in a widget. Note that each linklist has it’s unique id!

<div id=”linkcat-32447927″…

Now you can use this id as a selector to reposition that block into the intended position of your header.

Hope it helps

Klaus
carlaspacher · Member · Apr 13, 2010 at 11:33 pm
Copy link
Kilibee, what you suggest is way over my head. If I want to add the code below within my header how do I do this? I know how to use a text widget, but that’s about it.

<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’http://track4.mybloglog.com/js/jsserv.php?mblID=2010041315284187′></script>
carlaspacher · Member · Apr 13, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Copy link
P.S. I am trying to add this to theme “Greenery”.
timethief · Member · Apr 13, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Copy link
@carlaspacher
Hello there. Please be aware that javascript cannot be used on wordpress.com blogs and there are other coder restrictions as well. Read > http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ There are mybloglog badges you can use but you cannot use th widgets due to the javascript.

Also note that thesacredpath has supplied the correct answer to the original question that was posed in this thread.
kilibee · Member · Apr 14, 2010 at 6:58 am
Copy link
Well, Carla, what you’re trying to do here is loading a script from another site, and I can almost guarantee that this will never be allowed here for good reasons.

BTW you’re highjacking a thread with a quite different topic….
andrew · Member · Apr 14, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Copy link
Sorry, Michael, my bad. When I go to your blog now, I do indeed see the WordPress.com navbar at the top.

I second the points about the CSS hacks made by kilibee and tsp.
carlaspacher · Member · Apr 14, 2010 at 11:12 pm
Copy link
Sorry, about being off topic! I do not have the upgrade for CSS. I found my answer and was able to work around it by add the link in a tab as the title. Thanks, though!

No items found.