This link, however, will not do anything at the moment because you need the second part of the code.ĭon’t go running for the hills when I say code it’s very very simple. You should now have some text that is a clickable link. Important to note is that you keep the words lower case and without spaces.

A small box will pop up, in this box you should type # followed by whatever word or words you wish. You then need to highlight the text and click the link icon in the WordPress Gutenberg editor. Next, you need to write the text that will be the clickable link. You can start by either editing or creating a new post or page. Let’s get started adding your first anchor link It will also add another point of access for hackers and for a simple anchor link there really is no need to add a plug-in with lots of additional code just to achieve a link. We would advise against using a plugin for this because adding a plug-in adds more code to a website which can slow it down. Now that you have tested the link and have seen what it does, let’s dive in and show you how to link to another section of the page by adding a jump link on your WordPress website. Take me to the Smooth Scroll CSS Code Jump links and anchor links how to use them in WordPress

If you are still not sure what anchor links are or how they work just click the link below. They are made up of two parts, a hashtag link element, and an ID attribute. Anchor links sometimes known as jump links or a table of contents are links that take you straight to another section of the page when clicked.

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