Anita Ojeda 
Have you ever wondered how people add cool clickable buttons on the sidebar of their blog that lead to another blog page or post on their site? Here’s the skinny on how to add a button that links to a landing page (or post) on your blog if you have a self-hosted WordPress site.
This kind of button comes in handy if you’re participating in a writing challenge like the #Write28Days Blogging Challenge.
Step One
Write and publish your landing page. Make sure you have a square graphic somewhere on your page with dimensions of 1024 X 1024 pixels. You can create one for free on sites such as PickMonkey or Canva.
Step Two
Go to your blog’s Dashboard and scroll down to the “Appearance” button and click it.
Step Three
Locate the ‘Text’ box, click on it (grab it), and pull it over to the right where your sidebar widget area is located.
Step Four
Let go (drop) the Text Box in the position you’d like it (I put mine right under my search box). Next, click on the ‘Text’ tab.
Step Five
Copy and paste this html code into the Text box that you just opened: <center><a href=”YOUR LANDING PAGE URL”><img src=”YOUR BUTTON’S URL GOES HERE” width=””125″” height=””125″” /></a></center>
Step Six
Now copy your landing page (or post) URL.
Step Seven
Paste the landing page URL into the area of code where it says YOUR LANDING PAGE URL (make sure it has no extra spaces and falls within the quotation marks).
Step Eight
Now open another window with your blog’s dashboard and go to the Media Library of your blog. Click on your button and you’ll see a URL address for the button. Copy it.
Step Nine
Paste the button’s URL into the area of code where it says YOUR BUTTON’S URL GOES HERE (make sure it has no extra spaces and falls within the quotation marks).
Step Ten
You can change the size of your button by changing the numbers here. Just be careful not to mess with any of the other code!
Step Eleven
Now click on the ‘Visual’ tab to make sure that your button looks perfect. Make sure you save it!
Step Twelve
Now, check your website and make sure your button looks beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom. I am going to have to go back and see if I did them right. I know I couldn’t get them centered, but I see you did. You are a jewel. Saving this post.
Maree
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You’re welcome! I know how much NOT being able to do this stuff frustrated me at one time. Now I create posts like this so I can remember how to do things I don’t do very often ;).
I have a question. I see you use a horizontal picture which I do too. However, when I go to pin yours it is the desired size of Pinterest. How do you do that? Maree
So, I have this plugin (I paid for it, but it was very reasonable) called ‘tasty pins.’ There’s a link to it in my sidebar (black and pink). It allows me to choose what Pinterest pulls for pins. That way, when I have a whole bunch of not really pinnable graphics (like I do in this post), I can create a nice graphic and require that Pinterest pulls it first.
Your Genius!!! Once I began participating in blog link ups in August 2020, I couldn’t figure out how everyone was able to link the appropriate buttons to link back to the appropriate persons blog link up party. Hallelujah. So now I’m in the process of linking the link ups I participate in to their proper blogger. I even made one for one of my sites to point to it’s sister site. Woot Woot! Thank you bunches Anita.
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