anchors within posts

  • I have a very long post and I would like to put some anchors/links within it to make navigation easier (and less scrolling!).

    How can I do this?

    Thank you for your help!

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  • Hi Katechan, check this link out:


    https://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/links.html

    it’s like building a FAQ

    <a href="#6"><strong>6. anchor text for #6 anchor</strong></a>

    then where you want to jump to, put

    <a name="6"><strong>6. anchor text for #6 anchor</strong></a>

    the <a href="#6"> and <a name="6"> tags and their corresponding close tags are the important part – the text shown here as “6. anchor text for #6 anchor” can be anything you want

    Thread Starter katechan

    (@katechan)

    Okay.. I tried this (thank you for the tip!) using #s… like this:
    NOTE: I used the { } to avoid creating links here… which apparently I do beautifully HERE.. I just can’t do it on my page.

    {a href=”#1″}>Word to be linked {/a}
    and
    {a name=1}Where the link was going [/a}

    but the html is changing after I save it to some non-existent admin page?? It turns in to
    <a}Word to be linked </a}

    Any ideas what I am doing incorrectly?

    Thread Starter katechan

    (@katechan)

    Ooops… sorry – the links turns in to this:

    [a href=”https://www.website.com/wordpress/wp-admin/1″%5D Word to be linked {/a]

    I’m not sure, but try writing the code in the HTML code view of WP Write Post. Not the Visual Editor, if you’re using that.

    Thread Starter katechan

    (@katechan)

    Thanks… I did write in the html (word wrap enable) view.

    Guess I’ll have to approach this a little differently.

    Well, just go ahead and put your Post URL (the permalink to your post), and end it with /#1

    Example, the same code you wrote above except

    <a href="https://yoursite.com/your-post/#1">Word to be linked </a>

    On a similar, but not identical, thread, I have a longer post but want to limit the text visible to the first paragraph. In order to reduce the footprint on my popst, I want to put in an anchor to the remainder of the text so an intersted reader can click on it to expand it. My question is this, do I remove the text I want to link to (i.e. beyond the first paragraph) and then place it off-site with an anchor to reference / access it, or can it simply be concealed on the post and revealed via an interested reader clicking on the anchor?

    I have seen many examples of what I am after, but don’t know how to structure it on my site.

    kate-chan,
    Since this was 7 months ago maybe you figured it out or lost interest, but…

    I think you are having this problem because the page/post you are working on is still a draft. I had the same problem where it was stripping my html for the <a name ="">
    But once I published the page it all worked out fine. What I mean is I published the page and THEN I created the <a name> anchors.

    @dynamic1,
    It sounds like what you want is an excerpt with “read more” link.
    https://www.tech-evangelist.com/2009/03/08/wordpress-more-quicktag/

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