Thanks to Linda Wadman's comment on providing clickable links, I tried a few things on the Compose screen for creating and editing posts. Most were obvious, but I hadn't noticed.
1. Below the Title block is a Link block. Copy a url to that block, and the title of the finished post is a hot button that opens a window to that website. "Add enclosure link" provides endless opportunities for more links. Nothing obvious in the post tells you there are hot buttons for these links.
The above screen print is foggy, click on it to see it in full clearly
2. Also obvious, you have two tabs "Edit Html" and "Compose", each with a similar looking Link Icon on the toolbar. The "Compose" screen Link Icon opens a small dialogue box into which you may copy the url of interest. Click OK and a hot button (underscored text) appears in the body of the post. Do as many of those as you like, and each will open a link in a separate window. That's what I wanted!
The link icon from "Edit Html" resulted in html brackets and code surrounding the chosen url, but only a blank space appears in the body of the finished post.
Now, to go with this specific blog post, I would like to copy and paste a screen print of the "Compose" screen. I found a way to do that in WordPress, not great, but the same approach did not work here.
Another lesson learned, respond to Linda's comments. She's good! And she motivates by example.
2 comments:
There are quite a few ways to do this. Easiest is probably to do a printscreen in Windows, open Microsoft's Paint (in Accessories) paste the printscreen, and save the file as a jpeg. Then you can crop it in any app that lets you crop jpegs, save it again, or resize it to be the size you want, and add it as a photo to your blog post.
Another friend, Tom Brennan, Has been following my work here. His view is different than mine. He simply uses copy and paste to provide a link. Does not use the Link icon I described.
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