How do I post an email link?

you just need to do:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Email me</a>

and that will convert to a link.

Can someone kindly give me instructions on how to put an e-mail address that’s linked to a person’s name on the page, for instance. I tried doing it with LINK but it doesn’t work. I would like the page to show the person’s name and when viewers click on the name their e-mail program opens and they can send an e-mail to the person named. Hope I am asking this questions in an understandable way. I am awfully new to WP … just started learning about how it all works as I try to put a website together in the last 3 days. I am not sure, alright, I don’t know how to put html links in as Mr. Dingman suggested above. Thanks, in advance, for the help!!!

same as above

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">Fred Smith</a>
converts to
Fred Smith

Samuel, thanks for your quick response. Do I put Fred Smith in the URL with the link? I tried inserted this (plugging in my info) into the html format and couldn’t get it to work. Thanks for your patience with me! This musts be trivial and obvious … I am just not clicking!

ha ha – you did a correct link above

when making a link you can put anything where I put “Fred Smith”

if you click your link it will open your email client

Thank you, Mr. B!! I really appreciate your help!!!! Now onto how to put links in the side bar in the Twenty Eleven theme … I have chosen a text or html because most of what I want there is just text.

use the text widget in the sidebar for text and html stuff
dashboard – appearance – widgets

Is there a way to put a web link within a text widget. I am using a text widget to do text in the side bar and it’s working very nicely. I thought about putting in another widget that would allow me to put a link but not sure which one to use. Thanks so much for all the help!!! I am embarrassingly ignorant about this … and knew nothing about building websites a week ago! WP is amazing and having people like you around makes it awesomely amazing! Thanks!