Make text widget header a link

  • Resolved Rhand

    (@rhand)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    I use four text boxes with headers. The headers and text are added to the widgets in the WordPress Dashboard. The headers are generated by WordPress text widget itself. I want these headers to be wrapped in links linking to specific pages. How could I do that? Is there a specific text widget out there that I could use? Or is there another way?
    I found Zerhill’s option:https://www.zerohill.com/development/wordpress/link-widget-title-to-page-or-post.html, but that would require adjusting the WordPress core which I would like to avoid.

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  • Thread Starter Rhand

    (@rhand)

    Fixed it by adjusting functions.php and adding a link around my header before and after the title:

    register_sidebar(array('name' => 'widget one',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
         'before_title' => '<a href="./link"><h2>',
	 'after_title' => '</h2></a>',));

    this is exactly what I’m looking to do but can’t figure out how I identify the 3 text widgets independently that I’m using to put a different link on each header???

    I would also like to know how to identify each widget independently. I did exactly what Rhand did up there, but when I named it ‘widget one’, it erased my entire left sidebar, so I kept the name ‘Left Sidebar’, but now each widget Title in my left sidebar is linking to the same thing. I only want my top widget (1st widget) title in my left sidebar to link to something.

    imwy2cool

    (@imwy2cool)

    I have looked for SO long for a plugin like this and I have been getting close to writing one myself as I learn more and more PHP, but here is one that works great!

    Linkable Title Html and Php Widget by PepLamb


    https://peplamb.com/linkable-title-html-and-php-widget/

    Thank you to the plugin writer! I will for sure be donating as this is a must have plugin. I can’t believe WordPress doesn’t have this enabled as a core feature.

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