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Oh that’s cute, I now have a widget in the sidebar that links to the specific story.  I know it only links to one but hey it’s better than what I had before which was nothing

http://dianemdickson.wordpress.com/

I have a link in my menus on the header which comes straight to Shortbread and it does get a fair number of clicks.  The nice thing about that is that it brings readers to the site as a whole and not just to my specific group of stories and I think that is actually pretty good.  If there is a specific story I want to draw attention to then I either stick a link in a post which seems to work quite well - I wonder though if it’s possible to put it as an image in a sidebar - I should think so and I am going to try that right now - watch this space.

Yep, that’s what I thought. Oh well, I will just have to soldier on without the widget for now.

Yup - you can’t do it on Wordpress

Huh, missed the obvious again…I loaded the code to my own freebie website and the widget shows there fine.

Doesn’t help you I know but it does point to something else needing to be done at Wordpress. Good luck with that Bill.

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Hmm…I just copied and pasted the widget code into notepad, saved it as widget.html then opened it in IE. The widget shows up fine so the code’s OK. Must be something in Wordpress. You obviously know your way around a website so all I could suggest is asking at Wordpress Support.

I can add links no problem at all using the method you describe but I can’t get the widget to work. I’ve tried switching to html mode and pasting the code in but that doesn’t work. I’ve also tried pasting the code into a text widget box and that doesn’t work either!

p.s. Sorry, neglected to mention the widget if you’d rather use that. You’d need to be in HTML mode on Wordpress then you should be able to copy/paste the code there and it will appear as a widget to your visitors.

Bill, you should be able to add links even on a free blog site. How are you going about it? On the left panel of your home page it says, READ MY STORIES ON - SHORTBREAD. Is that where the link should go?

You’ve probably tried this but - just in case - you select/highlight the word SHORTBREAD then click on the word link (or a chain graphic) on the toolbar and a dialogue box pops up. Insert the URL you want to link to and click Add Link.

The word SHORTBREAD will then be an active link to that URL.