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How to create links via a blogroll in your sidebar in WordPress
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To add links to your sidebar, you first need to create some links.
Go to the ‘Links’ tab in the left hand sidebar in the Dashboard.
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Here are the listings of the links I already have in my sidebar blogroll.
We are going to add another one.
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Clicking on ‘Add New’ under ‘Links’ will bring up the ‘Add New Link’ page.
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Give your new link a name, for example, the title of the website or blog.
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Fill in the full URL of the website or blog you want to link to.
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Provide a description if necessary.
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Choose a category.
New blogs will have ‘Blogroll’ as their choice. We can change that name later.
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Select ‘_blank’ if you wish the link to open in a new window or tab. This will stop the visitor from losing your blog.
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State this website’s relationship to you if applicable.
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Don’t forget to click on the ‘Add Link’ button on the top right.
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Now go back to the Links listing page to see your new addition (listed alphabetically).
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And if you have the links widget already inserted, go to the sidebar and take a look!
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To place the appropriate widget in your sidebar, go to ‘Widgets’ under ‘Appearance’ in the left sidebar in the Dashboard.
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Amongst the widgets available, search for the one labelled ‘Links’.
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And drag it into the sidebar available on the right of the widgets page.
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Open up the widget, select the correct category (the default will be ‘Blogroll’), check the ‘Show Link Name’ box and click on the ‘Save’ button.
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If you don’t want the category name ‘Blogroll’, you can change it, or create another one.
Go to ‘Link Categories’ under ‘Links in the left hand sidebar in the Dashboard.
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This is where you create new categories (which are the titles of the link widgets) and edit them (for example, the default name ‘Blogroll’).
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To edit a link category’s name, for example the default ‘Blogroll’, mouse over its name to bring up the ‘Edit’ link.
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Here is the ‘Edit Link Category’ page.
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Change ‘Blogroll’ to whatever category name you like.
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Don’t forget to click on the ‘Update’ button.
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And check out your new link category’s name.
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Or you can create a new link category too.
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When you’ve finished, click on the ‘Add New Link Category’ button.
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And check out your new link category.
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It will only show up in your link widget once you’ve allocated links to it.