Adding a Link
To add a link, highlight the text you want to be click-able and then click the link button — circled:
A screen will pop up like this:
Type or copy and paste the URL that you want to link to. If you would like the link to open in a new window, choose that option from the dropdown. If you want the page to open in the same window, you may choose that option or make no choice – it will default to the same window. Click “Insert”. The highlighted text will now be click-able. (If you want to remove a hyperlink, highlight the text and click the broken link button directly to the right of the link button.)
Adding An Image
Adding images is a great way to improve your post and it’s not difficult with Word Press. Position your cursor on the line that you want the image to appear and click the image button:
When you click the button a window will pop up. There’s a lot going on in this window, so I’ll break it down as much as possible.
Click the select button to choose an image that you have saved to your PC. A window will pop up to allow you to navigate to the image and upload it. Word Press will then upload the image and allow you to add titles, description and alignment within the post. That screen will look like this:
If you would like the image to be click-able, you can enter the URL you would like the image to link to in the “Link URL” field. After you are satisfied with the settings, click “Insert into Post”. Your image will appear in the post. What you’ve actually done is 2 steps in one screen. The first step uploaded the image to the media library and the second inserted it in the post. This means that you can also insert images that are already in the media library.
You can also use a URL to point to the image you would like to use, but this is risky as the site that hosts the image may remove it, leaving you with a broken image.