If you click the Text tab, you’ll see that the text of your post is still there, interspersed with HTML tags. This is one of the few times you’ll need to take a peek into the HTML code of your page, shown in the Text view. Most of us do our writing entirely in Visual view, which is fine for most purposes. The Visual and Text tabs on the WordPress post boxĪt the top of your WordPress post box, there are two tabs, labeled Visual and Text. Locate the end point of the jump in Text view To do that, we’ll start with the subhead itself. Let’s link up the table-of-contents entry “Part 1: Thesis” with its subhead.

Maybe a list, like this:Īnd then lower down in the body of your page, you’ll have subheads, using Header 3 style, that match those table-of-contents listings.

Figure out where the jump will start and endĪt the top of your page, you’ll have some text that you want to turn into clickable links to sections of your page. Let’s say, for example, that you have a long page, and you want to let readers jump straight to Part 1, Part 2, or Part 3 of the page from a table of contents at the top. At the top of a sales page, you can include a link saying “Want to go straight to the price?”.The handy “return to top” link at the bottom of a page.Each item in the table of contents links to a subhead lower down on the page. A long post or page with a table of contents at the top.And sometimes that means linking within the content of a page.į’rinstance, here are some situations that might call for jump links: News that might be not-quite-so-good: You have to do a little bit of manual fiddling to get it to work, including (gasp) adding a tiny piece of HTML code to your page. So…what if you want to link to something other than the top of the page?

I personally prefer the term jump links because it captures the idea that these links let readers “jump” to various parts of a page (and also because technically all links use the HTML anchor tag…so every link is an anchor link). Jump links, also known as anchor links, are links that take you to a specific part of a page, instead of the default top location.

I’ve previously explained how WordPress is an internal linking powerhouse, but even the super-easy and super-powerful WordPress link dialog box doesn’t contain a built-in way to add jump links.

Jump links in wordpress