Widget to Add a Button to Sidebar

indyrealestatereel · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:11 pm
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Is there a widget that I can use to add a button to my sidebar that will link to a web address? I know there is the “Text” widget, but I don’t have the html code to copy and I don’t write code. I’m just looking for a button, with a label I can specify, that will link to an address I can specify. Thanks!

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timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:15 pm
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You need to create a link in a text widget and the link can be to a button image. This isn’t hard to do.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image
raincoaster · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:17 pm
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The easiest way to create a text widget is just to write it as a draft post with no title. Once it looks the way you want more or less, click to the TEXT editor, copy all the code, and paste it in the text widget.
timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:19 pm
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That’s what the instruction I linked to suggest too.
raincoaster · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:23 pm
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Really? They never used to; I’m the one who came up with that!
indyrealestatereel · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:52 pm
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Thank you timethief and raincoaster!!
timethief · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:53 pm
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You’re welcome and best wishes. :)
ferniejohn · Member · Sep 18, 2013 at 12:47 pm
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I do it slightly differently. I upload the image I want to the media library. Click edit on the image to view the permalink, paste this into an image widget and then paste the website URL into the link field
sophiazerg · Member · Oct 27, 2013 at 12:03 pm
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I’m having the same issues. I followed the instructions by creating a draft post and copying the code. I paste the code into a text widget, and my images are appearing HUGE on my sidebar. Please have a look at my blog and see what I mean (it is the social media buttons on the bottom of the sidebar). I am also trying to place the social media buttons side by side, that isn’t working either.
Here is the code
<img class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-1257″ alt=”twitter” src=”http://silkandspiceblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/twitter2.png” width=”48″ height=”48″ /> <img alt=”instagram” src=”http://silkandspiceblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/instagram2.png” width=”48″ height=”48″ />

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