Adding, then finding and using, anchors in WordPress
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HELP ! ! ! !
I’m presently transferring my extensive site (aerialsandtv.com) to WordPress from Webplus because Google is down ranking it as being (in its view) not mobile friendly.
The site is very popular (or used to be before downranking ! ) partly because, just like Wikipedia, it’s got loads of cross links, in fact there are literally thousands..
The problem is that I cannot find a way to easily create anchors and then be able to find them again when wanting to put in a link to them. If I want to put a link to another page (in WordPress) it’s no problem, it brings up a list of pages and I click on one and its done. BUT, if I want to put a link in to an anchor I can’t get it to bring up the anchors at all. The only way I can see to do it is to have a separate list of anchors and manually copy and paste every anchor into the link. That will take forever and be very complicated to administer.Surely that can’t be the only way to do it ?
Also, is there any way to run a check if all the internal links are good without having to publish the site and then use (say) Xenu ?
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Many of the blocks in the editor have buttons to put in anchor. Where do you want to put the anchor? In a post or menu ? If you want a url just go to the dashboard and click the all post or all pages which will display a list of all your post or pages. When you hover over the page or post you want it will have an option to view it. Just click that option to display the post and copy the url from the address bar.
Thank you for your answers, I’ll try to get the link checker plug in.
However, they main problem is still how to find the anchors and put in the link to the anchor when I want to put a new link in to an anchor, bear in mind there will be over a thousand anchors.
As an example, I want to put in a link to aerial-polarisations from another page, possibly a new page I may add a year or two down the line. How can I put the link in without having to search out the anchor (and copy and paste it) or copy and paste it from a separate database ? Is there any plug in which will bring up all the anchors available for a particular page ? That’s how Webplus worked, you`d highlight the link text, click link, it’d ask you if you wanted an external link, or to link to a site page page, or to an anchor on a site page. If you clicked the latter it’d bring up a list of all the anchors on that page, you’d click the relevant one and bingo it’s done. The fact it was so easy is partly why my site has so many links, which partly explains why it was so popular !Thanks for all your ideas, the WordPress “plug in” link checker is defn worth getting.
But, basically, apart from that, it’s not good news at all is it ! Adding these links is taking for ever, I reckon it’ll take weeks (literally).
I just have to look on the positive side, and the only positive I can think of is it’s so time consuming to add links to anchors that it’s unlikely anyone would bother, particularly on a large website with loads of links, thus my site will be the best and probably remain so !
It’d be quite annoying if a plug in (to easily add links to anchors) came out just after I’d finished doing them all manually, so that’s probably what will happen ! ! !
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