One of the easiest ways to customize a webpage is to add links to the footer of the themes template. You could add the link to any website you want and if your blog is part of your website adding a link to the homepage of your site will help your search engine rankings as well. This is a little WordPress Guide that will help interlink your website.

Step 1

First make sure you can edit your theme’s footer.php Login to your blog, click Presentation, then Theme Editor, look for the Footer.php file on the right and click it to open it in the editor. Don’t forget to copy all the content in this file and save it as a text file in Notepad on your computer. That way if you mess things up you can just paste the original code back in to start over.

 

Now look for the links that are already in place, for the default theme that will look like this:

 

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<?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?> is proudly powered by
<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a>

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Step 2

We want to add a link right after this code, Place your mouse right after the original code and hit the space bar once and add your new link code. Or you could just copy the original code and paste it right after it and then edit the URL, the anchor text and even place some text in front of it like this:

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<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a> More Optional Text <a href=”http://YourWebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>

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I also recommend that you add this little line of code target="_blank" so that your code looks like this:

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<a target="_blank" href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a> More Optional Text <a href=”http://YourWebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>

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Here is some sample code to get you started:

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<a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> | <a target="_blank" href="###########">Link Name Here</a> <br /> Copyright © %YEAR%. All Rights Reserved.

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Final Step

Just replace the ###### with your link, and give your link a name, and you are ready to paste it into your footer.php file between the <p class="copyright"> and the </p>.

Your footer may look like this:

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<?php
/**
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Notepad_Theme
 */
?>

    <div id="footer">
    <div class="about">

    <h4>Beaker Productions - Formulating your perfect webpage.</h4>

                <p class="about-text">
                    <?php echo get_settings( 'mag_about_blog' ); ?>
                </p>

        <p class="copyright">
            <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/about-me/testimonials/">Testimonials</a> | <a target="_blank"href="http://beakerproductions.com/forum-registration/">Registration</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/products-page/your-account/">Your Account</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/forum-registration/terms-and-conditions/">Terms and Conditions</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/testimonial-disclaimer/">Testimonial Disclaimer</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/forum-registration/privacy-policy/">Privacy Policy</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://beakerproductions.com/e-mail-policy/">E-mail Policy</a> <hr/> | &copy; #### Copyright <?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?>
                </p>

            </div><!-- End about -->

        </div><!-- End container -->

    </div><!-- End footer -->

    <div id="link-back">

        <div class="container clearfix">

    <?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

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Now Click Update File, open your site and marvel at your handy work!

If you are using a free theme that someone wrote and it has a link to their website in it please leave the link intact. After all that is a small price to pay for what they have provided you.

Every Beaker Productions Theme includes our easy to use Footer link text box. Their is no more searching through .php files to find where to put your footer content. With our box it is as easy as plug and play, with example code pre-loaded into every theme. image below

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Like always thanks for reading

Beaker