How to Put a URL Link on Your Tumblr Page

Tumblr is a free blogging platform especially designed for quick posting of media such as videos, short posts and hyperlinks to websites. Posting a URL as a post is as simple as clicking "Link" and pasting the Web address into the URL field provided. Adding links to your page as a permanent sidebar feature, however, takes a slightly more advanced knowledge of HTML, the programming code underlying your Tumblr page.

Instructions

1. Log in to your Tumblr Dashboard, and then click "Preferences."

2. Click "Customize Your Blog."

3. Click the "Theme" tab, and click "Use Custom HTML" from the drop-down menu. The HTML code for your Tumblr page appears.

4. Scroll down to "<div id="sidebar">." Each "<div>" tag is a different element of your sidebar, so decide where you want to place your links in relation to other sidebar elements.

5. Type the following HTML where you want the first link to go: <div id="link"><a href=" "></a>.

6. Type or copy and paste the URL of the site between the quotation marks in the "<a>" tag, and type the anchor text, such as "Home Page" or "My Other Blog," between the "<a>" and "</a>" tags.

7. Add the same code again, inserting other hyperlinks, and click "Update Preview" to preview the sidebar.

8. Click "Save" in the top right corner to save changes.