Making Images Clickable in WordPress
One way to enhance your website’s user experience is by making your WordPress images clickable, meaning users can be navigated to a different page or website by clinking on the image. This can be done using HTML anchor “”a”” tags.
Anchor tags are used in HTML for linking to other webpages or sections within the same page. To make an image clickable, you need to “wrap” it with an anchor tag. This just means you’re placing your image tag inside an anchor tag. The anchor tag should include the href attribute, which holds the URL of the page users will be navigated to when they click the image.
Here’s an example:
<a href=""your-desired-URL"">
<img src=""your-image-source""/>
</a>In this case, “”your-desired-URL”” would be replaced with the actual URL you want the image to link to, and “”your-image-source”” is the URL or source of your image.
Maintaining Design Symmetry with CSS
Ensuring symmetry and alignment of your images and text on your WordPress website is crucial for making your website visually appealing. For this, you can employ CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which is a language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in HTML.
Two popular methods for alignment in CSS are the Flexbox layout and the Grid layout.
Flexbox Layout
Flexbox (Flexible Box) is a layout model that allows easy control over the alignment and distribution of space among items in a container, even when their sizes are unknown or dynamic.
For example:
.box{
display: flex;
align-items:center;
margin-bottom:10px;
}
In this case, we’re instructing the browser to display the elements in a flexible context which helps align and distribute space among the images or text.
Grid Layout
The CSS Grid Layout is a 2-dimensional system that handles both columns and rows, unlike flexbox which is largely a 1-dimensional system. It’s more complex and versatile than flexbox, but also harder to learn if you’re a beginner.
Choosing between Flexbox and Grid layouts depends on your project. For most situations, especially on smaller components of a design, Flexbox is simpler and more flexible. However, for larger scale layouts, the Grid could be a more efficient solution as it can deal with both columns and rows simultaneously.
You should also ensure that your images have a consistent size. This will help keep your design symmetrical and visually balanced. For instance:
.box-inner{
margin-right:10px;
width:100px;
height:auto;
display:block;
}
In this case, the images are given a fixed width of 100px, the height automatically adjusts to maintain the image aspect ratio, and the images are displayed as block-level elements, which means they will start on a new line and take up the full width available.
Resources
To get a deeper understanding of these topics, you can study HTML and CSS concepts on resources like MDN Web Docs. When you’re ready to apply what you learnt, practice in a safe environment using tools like CodePen or JSFiddle before implementing changes on your WordPress site. And remember, creating an appealing and functional WordPress website is a journey. With persistence and practice, you’ll get better over time.