How to add links to an article

Links help visitors move around your site, whether to another page, an email address or a different website altogether. This guide covers the three kinds you’ll add most often.

Adding a link

1. Log in to your web office, select the group that holds your page, open the Documents tab and click the article’s title to open the editor.
2. Highlight the text you want to turn into a link.
3. Click the ‘Add Link’ icon on the toolbar.
4. To link somewhere within your own site, choose the type of content from the dropdown, such as ‘Group Homepage’, then pick the group or item you want and click ‘Select’ to confirm.
5. To link to another website, choose ‘Website URL’ from the dropdown, type or paste the address, click ‘Check URL’ to make sure it’s valid, then click ‘OK’.
6. For links to other websites, change the ‘Same Tab’ dropdown on the confirmation box to ‘New Tab’, then click ‘OK’. That way your own site stays open when someone follows the link.
7. To link to an email address, choose the ‘Email’ option from the dropdown and enter the address. You can also pre-fill the subject line, so emails from your church social page arrive already titled ‘Church social query’ and whoever reads the inbox knows what it’s about at a glance.
8. Click ‘Save’, then use ‘Preview’ to test each link works as you expect.

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Good to know

• The same dropdown lets you link to articles, events, media files and other content on your site, not only group homepages. There’s also a ‘system page’ option for built-in pages like the login page.
• Links within your own site are best left opening in the same tab; save ‘New Tab’ for other websites.
• If nothing is highlighted, the ‘Add Link’ icon won’t be available, so select your link text first.