Easy Ways to Create Anchor Links in WordPress

⚓️ Anchor links can make your website more user-friendly and easier to navigate. Learn how to create them on your WordPress site. 👉 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/c/Kinsta?sub_...

Anchor links, also known as jump menu links or table of contents, are links that instantly take you to a specific part of a page or to an external page. The anchor destinations are usually specified by using the name or ID attributes.

Although anchor links aren't discussed a lot, we’ve had excellent results with them! In this video, we’ll be diving into how to create anchor links in WordPress and explore the different reasons why you might want to start using them. Anchor links can help improve the user experience, make navigating long contents a lot easier, and even give you a slight advantage in Google. Sounds good? Press play! ▶️

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🕘Timestamps

0:00 Easy Ways to Create Anchor Links in WordPress
0:41 What Are Anchor Links?
1:47 Pros and Cons of Anchor Links
3:57 Anchor Link Transition
4:24 How to Manually Create Anchor Links in WordPress
5:21 How to Create Anchor Links in WordPress with a Plugin
7:56 How to Create Anchor Links in WordPress with Gutenberg
8:25 How to Create Anchor Links in WordPress with Chrome Extension*

⚠️ *After the release of this video, the "Anchor Links" Chrome Extension was discontinued.

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📚Resources

📙Complete Guide on The Easy Ways to Create Anchor Links in WordPress
► https://kinsta.com/blog/anchor-links/

🔌 Free Plugin Page Scroll to ID
► https://wordpress.org/plugins/page-sc...

► CSS: scroll-behavior: smooth;

👨🏽‍💻 Additional Anchor Tips for Developers
► https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...

#WordPressAnchorLinks #AnchorLinks

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