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Creating An Image Widget With a Link to a Specific Page!

Now, I have never professed to be a particularly internet savvy person, but I do try to learn how to do things so it’s easier for myself! And when I manage to figure things out, it stands to reason that I should share these little gems of information!

The other day the lovely TJ invited me to become a part of his new Haiku Hub, and I asked whether it would be ok to use the image as a widget on my side-bar, and maybe even link it to his page. He was more than happy for me to do this, but asked that I share the method, so here I am, trying to do this!

So if you want an image widget on your side-bar, you need to click on WP admin and scroll down to Appearance, then Widgets. Once you open this page there is a list of available widgets on the right, and the left should show you what you already have on your side-bar and in your footers.

Select the Image widget, and drag it to wherever you would like it to sit on the column on the right. (Bear in mind things sometimes look different once in place, so be prepared to revisit this part, to drag the widget to the optimum place!)

You will see this screen when you expand the Image widget.

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Just fill in the fields as you wish. So, give it a title, and then you need to find the Image URL. What’s that you say??

Well, if you download the image you want in your media library, then open it, you see this screen.

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Use the File URL in the Image URL box on the Widget set up screen.

Then add the caption you wish.

The Link URL requires you to pop the link in where you want your reader to land when they click the image.

Once you have done that, click save, then view your web page, and try it out!

Voila! A clickable image with an embedded link! Check me out!

I Have A Little Secret… But I Need A Little Input…

  
…I’m working on something… Hopefully I can realise my dreams in a slightly different way…

My novel Wedded Stress has hit a block purely because of time, but I fancy being published, still… So I am taking inspiration from my Blogily, amd possibly publishing some bits I have written…

What I want to know from you is, 

A) Poems only?

B) Short stories only?

C) a compilation of both?

What would be more appealing to you?

I even have a possible name… But that will only be revealed if I actually do this!

My Create Space account has been set up…. I just need to fill it!

Photo-fy Your Comments!

Can I just start this post by saying that I have absolutely no qualifications to guide anyone with regards to blogging! Whatever I have found out in the last 10+ months has been through asking members of my Blogily, and kind readers helping me out.

So, when the opportunity comes to help another, I am more than happy to try and pass on a gem or two of wisdom, if it helps!

Today, in my post about breakfast, Hugh, the reason for the post, was mystified as to how I managed to put an image into my comments! Then my lovely blog sis Judy also piped up that she would love to know how to do that too!

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A polite request of a post with instructions from Hugh means I am here typing away!

Actually there is a bit of history to how I finally worked out one way to actually do this. I was as intrigued as Hugh and Judy a few months ago, seeing comments on my posts with images and gifs.  My other Blog Sis Erika and I tried with no luck for ages to learn. We had help from many, but it just wasn’t working.

All we were being told was to find a picture and just use the URL… Copy and paste it into the comments section, and it would work… but it didn’t!  There were many comments we were sending that would just show a jumble of letters, and URLs, but no image.

Then I got a pearl of wisdom from the Leibster Meister himself, Rib Rob of The V-Pub. It was possibly not the easiest way, but hey, it worked for us, and even though I don’t use it often, it is good to know!

So… basically the way I do this mega complex insertion of image into comments is…

… upload the image you wish to use in the comments to the WP Media album.

Then once there, get the details up of the image you want, and you will see an image URL box.

Here is a screen shot of the website Media view.

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Or if you use Android, the screen looks like so…

wpid-screenshot_2015-10-11-17-52-38.pngThe URL is already highlighted.

Copy the URL and paste into the comment section, and this is the important bit!

Click into the URL text and remove the ‘s’ from the ‘https’ part of the URL at the beginning.

Then go ahead and press ‘send’, et voila! your image should appear in the comments section!

Go ahead and try it in the comments below, and we shall see if I am any good as an IT teacher, or whether I should just stick to Nursery teaching and smiling!

As I said before, there is probably much easier ways to do this, and if any of you wonderful Peeps know, be sure to share! But hey, it works, and if you are not technically minded, (that’ll be me then!), this is a fool proof way!

I hope it helps!

Don’t Worry, Be Happy

So many truths in this! Please read, and then go, smile and BE HAPPY!

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