To fully understand how this works, let me explain the HTML basics of required elements we need for anchoring:
The main difference between regular and anchor links is that we should point to an existing element on the same page instead of an external URL that leads to another page.
Just as any other regular link out there, the anchor link has to point to somewhere. The easy guide to creating anchor links inside WordPress posts and pages Which is why I’m teaching you how to do it right now. So, you see, having this cool feature can considerably improve the UX of your blog or a website. So, these are situations in which these page jump links can be quite useful: Especially if you have a long piece of text, as in my described case. Just as your articles are useful, the links should be as well. Why use anchor links in WordPress at all? Or, more exact – it’s a shortcut to wherever you want your readers to go. This feature is also known as jump links in WordPress, and it’s useful in more than one way. So, naturally, I wanted to share my knowledge about it with you guys, thus, this guide on how to do anchor links without coding experience. Until I successfully did it! ( after X times trying) 🙂 However, success is a success, and today I’m a proud know-how person for doing great anchor links in WordPress. That pretty plain HTML feature that, no matter how easy it looks, to me was out-of-this-world heavy. Yes, that terrible ( in my head at that time) scary, coding-related anchor link guys. And moreover, that table of content required to have anchor links.
And by user-friendly I mean I needed to have a table of content. What seemed to be the problem? No matter how good it’s written, if it’s not presented in a user-friendly way, it’s not helping anyone. Once I finished the whole piece I knew I had something great in front of me but also that I couldn’t just post it as is. Very specific and detailed and it contained many subsections that I couldn’t do without. So, while back I was working on this full-detailed article that had about 3000+ words. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Reddit Viber WhatsApp 23 Shares
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