How To Add Links In WordPress 4.7 — The Quick & Easy Guide!

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Professional bloggers and writers know that it’s always important to cite your sources. WordPress 4.7 makes it very easy to directly link to another website where you may have gotten information from. In this article, I’ll show you how to add links in WordPress 4.7 so you can cite your sources, avoid plagiarism, and  look more professional.

How To Add links in WordPress 4.7

Follow this simple, step-by-step guide to add links in WordPress 4.7.

  1. Copy the URL of the website you want to link to.copy link to add in wordpress
  2. Go to your WordPress post in visual editor mode by clicking the “Visual” tab in the upper right hand corner of the editor.use visual editor to add links in wordpress
  3. Highlight the text you want to use as your hyperlink.highlight text to add link in wordpress
  4. Click the link icon link icon wordpress in your toolbar, which looks like a chain link.click the link icon to add link in wordpress
  5. A small box will appear below the highlighted text. Paste the URL you copied in step 1 into the field which says “Paste URL or type to search.”paste url to add links in wordpress
  6. Click the blue box with the white arrow to add the link to your WordPress post!click the blue box with a white arrow to add links in wordpress your link has been added to your wordpress post

Wrapping It Up

That’s all it takes to add links in WordPress 4.7! Now you’ll know exactly what to do next time to need to reference another website in your own articles. We encourage you to share it on social media or leave a comment down below if you have any further questions!

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