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Default What is Anchors in Wordpress & What are they Used for?
Hello everybody,

I was chatting with a colleague and in our conversation I was asked if I knew how to use anchors in Wordpress, since I am a newbie at Wordpress, can anybody tell me what that is and what its used for?

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Anchors are like a page jump. for exaple if you have a long page of information or content you can create links at the top of the page to anchor down to the section on teh page. Example Anchors would be good for a faq page. List the faqs on the top fo the page and it would be a clickable link which jumps below to where the informtion would be. So it jumps from one part of a page to another part of the page. Hope I helped
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Hi Serena,

Thanks so much, now I get it. Now all I need to figure out is how to create for one of my pages in my websit and since you usesd the example of using them on faqs, anchors would work well for my faqs page on my website.

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Ivette,

I believe that this is what you are looking for:

Link: <a href="#AnchorName">Text for the Jump Link</a>

Target: <a name="AnchorName">Enter text or leave blank</a>

Note: Anchor names must be different for each section and target should be placed before section of text used. If you want a back to top link then use the following and place at the top of page and then after each section (do not change the Anchor Name)

Back to top example:

Link: <a href="#backtotop"></a>

Target: <a name="backtotop">Back to Top</a>


Hope this helps with what you need.
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Default Re: What is Anchors in Wordpress & What are they Used for?
Thank you so much ladies, this has help me tremendously. Now I can have my FAQs page link back to the top and link to the questions.

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Actually there is a plugin you can add to Wordpress that adds anchors. It is called Tiny MCE Advanced. When you select your settings there is a little anchor that will be added to your editor on the pages and posts. You create anchors and then when you link it to the anchor you use the link function. Let me knwo if you need help with it. the plugin should provide enough info to do it.

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Originally Posted by VBSOnDemand View Post
Actually there is a plugin you can add to Wordpress that adds anchors. It is called Tiny MCE Advanced.
Well, sheesh . When I created my "Rates for Services" page with my 'jump menu' and 'back to top' links on that page I did it the old fashioned HTML way. Who woulda thunk there was this plugin - and I didn't even think to look!

Thanks for the info on this plugin, Serena!
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Thanks for that plugin suggestion for anchors, Serena. Great tip!!!! Love that!

I'm off to add that plugin.

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Thanks for the recommendation! It was what I needed right now.

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Jules,

I too am like you. I need to remember the plug in section. Thanks for the reminder Serena.
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