Inserting Links

Wild Apricot allows you to add links to your web pages. You can insert your links into text or graphics (i.e. make a picture into a link).

Use the link button in the editor toolbar to add a link to the page.

Inserting text or image links

To insert a link on a web page, highlight the text in which you would like to insert the link and click on the [Link] button on top menu and then on "Inset Link".

If you want to add a link to an image, click on the image to select it and then click the [Link] button. The Insert Link window will open, here you can specify whether your link goes to an compose an email in the users default mail program, if it goes to another website, if it goes to another page on the same website, or if it goes to an event you had set up.

Linking to another page on your website

To link anther page on your site, click on the Site pages tab in the Insert link window. In the left panel, you will see all the pages contained on your website. Click on the page you want to link to in the left panel, and then on the right select whether you want to open in a new window or a new window. You can also specify a tooltip which is a small message that pops up when you hoover over the link. If it is a text link and you didn't highlight your text before clicking the link button, you can also specify the Link text, which is the words shown for the link.

Linking to an email address or another website

To link anther an email address or another website, click on the Websites/E-mail tab in the Insert link window. On the left, enter the email address or web address that you want the link to go to. On the right select whether you want to open in a new window or a new window. You can also specify a tooltip which is a small message that pops up when you hoover over the link. If it is a text link and you didn't highlight your text before clicking the link button, you can also specify the Link text, which is the words shown for the link.

Linking to an event on your website

To link to one of your events, click on the Events tab in the Insert link window. in the left panel, you will see all past and upcoming events. Click on the event you want to link to in the left panel, and then on the right select whether you want to open in a new window or a new window. Under the Link to heading on the right, you can choose to link to the event details page or straight to the registration form for the event. You can also specify a tooltip which is a small message that pops up when you hover over the link. If it is a text link and you didn't highlight your text before clicking the link button, you can also specify the Link text, which is the words shown for the link.

Inserting Anchors (aka Jump Links/Bookmarks - links to other parts of the same page)

If you have a long page, you may wish to add links to allow readers to skip down to the information they are looking for. These links have different names, within Wild Apricot they are referred to as anchors.

To use anchors, click on the [Link] button and select "Show anchors" so you can see where the anchors you inserted are while you are editing the page. Next, click where or select the text that you want to make an anchor (usually this would be a section header) and then click on the [Link] button and select "Insert anchor".

In the "Insert anchor" window that comes up, enter the pops up, enter in a name for the anchor. You can not uses spaces in the name, this is just a keyword to use identify the anchor when inserting the links. You can use "about" or "Privacy-Section". Click on insert. If you had turned on the option to show anchors, an icon will display where you created the anchor (these icons only show when editing the page):

To add a link to an anchor, select the text you want to make the link, click the [Link] button and select "Insert link to anchor". Next, enter the name of the anchor you want to link to in the box on the left or simply select it from the list of anchors available on the page shown to the right and then click [Insert Link].

Generating a table of contents

Wild Apricot allows you to automatically insert a list of links to all the anchors you have added to your page. By clicking the [Link] button and selecting "Insert TOC", Wild APricot will place a bullet-pint list of links using the anchor name as the link text. You can then rename or format the links as desired.