How to Link an Email Address in WordPress
Wondering how to link an email address to your WordPress site? You should read this article as it teaches multiple ways to accomplish that.
In this guide, you will learn two ways to link an email address in WordPress. Thus, the first section will teach you how to perform this task via the default WordPress block editor.
Meanwhile, in the second section, you will learn how to link an email address on your WordPress site using HTML.
Apart from the methods mentioned above, I will include an FAQ section in this guide. That section will provide answers to some of the questions people mostly ask related to this guide’s topic.
Link an Email Address in WordPress Via WordPress Block Editor
The fastest and easiest way to link an email address on your WordPress site is through the default WordPress block editor. To learn how to accomplish that, follow the procedures and screenshots provided below.
- First, access the backend dashboard of your WordPress site as an administrator. Then, click Pages or Post on the dashboard’s left pane, depending on where you want to link an email address.
- Next, select the title of the page or post where you want to link an email address. In this case, I want to link an email address in the “Contact” page on my WordPress website.
- When the page or post opens, highlight the text to which you want to link an email address. Then, click the Link button among the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the text block.
- In the input box that appears, input “mailto:” followed immediately by your preferred email address and press the enter key. For instance, if I want to link “[email protected]” to the highlighted text, I will input “mailto:[email protected]” in the input box.
- Finally, click the Update button at the top right corner of the page to save the change.
Link an Email Address in WordPress Using HTML
Another way to link an email address on your WordPress website is by using a certain HTML element. The following procedures demonstrate how to link an email address in WordPress using HTML.
- With the aid of an admin account, log in to the backend dashboard of your WordPress website. Next, depending on where you want to link an email address, click Posts or Pages on the dashboard’s left pane.
- After that, open the post or page where you want to link an email address by left-clicking its title. For this illustration, I will select the “Contact” page on our WordPress site.
- When the post/page opens, select the text block that features the text to which you want to link an email address. Then, click the Options button on the toolbar at the top of the text block and select Edit as HTML.
- Afterward, wrap the text to which you want to link an email address in the HTML element below. However, replace “[email protected]” with your preferred email address.
<a href="https://www.itechguides.com/how-to-link-an-email-address-in-wordpress/mailto:[email protected]"> </a>
For example, if I want to link the “[email protected]” email address to “Contact Us”, below is what the HTML element should look like.
<a href="https://www.itechguides.com/how-to-link-an-email-address-in-wordpress/mailto:[email protected]"> Contact Us </a>
- When you’ve done that, click the Edit visually button, then left-click the Update button at the top right corner of the page to save the change.
Frequently Asked Questions About Linking an Email Address in WordPress
No, it isn’t. “mailto” is a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) for email addresses.
It is used to develop hyperlinks on websites, allowing users to send an email to a specific address directly from an HTML document.
To make an email address clickable in WordPress, follow the steps below.
a) First, access the backend dashboard of your WordPress site as an administrator.
b) Then, click Pages or Post on the dashboard’s left pane, depending on where you want to make an email address clickable.
c) Next, select the title of the page or post where you want to make the email address clickable.
d) When the page or post opens, input the email address you want to make clickable in a text block and highlight the email address.
e) Following that, click the Link button among the buttons on the toolbar at the top of the text block.
f) In the input box that appears, type “mailto:” followed immediately by the email address and press the enter key.
g) Consequently, the email address should be clickable. Finally, click the Update button at the top right corner of the page to save the change.
Raymond Samuel Tomlinson is regarded as the father of email. He was a computer programmer from the United States who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system in 1971.
Sadly, according to Wikipedia, he passed away on March 5, 2016.
The following are the major types of website emails.
a) Welcome email
b) Offer email
c) Survey email
d) Request email
e) Newsletter email
f) Free gift email
g) Value email
h) The We’re Hiring email
I) New product email
j) Announcement email
You can attach various types of files to an email. These include word documents, PDF files, images, videos, folders, Excel spreadsheets, and so on.
My Final Thoughts About Linking an Email Address in WordPress
Offering visitors the option to contact you through your website is very important. One of the many ways you can do that is by linking an email address to your WordPress website.
Fortunately, this guide demonstrated two ways to link an email address in WordPress. To be more specific, we discussed how to execute this task through the default WordPress block editor.
This guide also taught us how to link an email address on a WordPress site using HTML. Hence, with this guide, linking an email address to any post or page on your WordPress website should be seamless.
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