My lovely reader, Lucy, has kindly supplied a Pyjama Party HTML for inserting a clickable button link in your sidebar.
The code is:
<a href=”http://didyoumakethat.com/tag/pyjama-party/“><img src=”https://didyoumakethat.com/2012/04/pyjama-party-button.jpg?w=125&h=125” /></a>
I’m a WordPress gal, so can supply instructions for inserting this on a WordPress blog:
- Click on the Dashboard.
- Under the ‘Appearance’ option go to ‘Widgets’ Drag a text box into your Primary Widget Area.
- Click on the newly positioned text widget, paste the below code into the large box and press save.
Can anyone supply similair instructions for Blogger?
Thanks so much! Coming up, news of my pyjama fabric choice – and a radical decision to cut out on the cross grain.
 
Okay so I am totally joining in. Winter is coming here in NZ and I need me some more jammies!
For Blogger (new interface):
1. go to Layout
2. click “Add a gadget” on a suitable space – a popup will appear
3. scroll down to “HTML/JavaScript”, and click it
4. write a title and copy/paste the snippet
5. click save – the popup will close
6. click “Save arrangement” on the blogger page
Thank you so much!
Thanks!
BTW, I just realized this while trying to do exactly this for my blog: the HTML snippet above uses inverted quotes, which won’t work (they need to be straight). Correct snippet is (this is from my blog so it opens in a new window, remove [target=”_blank”] below if you don’t want it to do that):
Gah, of course they remove HTML. Well, just change all quotes to “.
For Dreamwidth or LJ/IJ/DJ/etc. the code needs altering a little bit:
<a href=”http://didyoumakethat.wordpress.com/tag/pyjama-party/”> <img src=”https://didyoumakethat.com/2012/04/pyjama-party-button.jpg” w=125 h=125> </a>
And then it needs putting in the custom text box for (one of) your sidebar(s) in whichever of the myriad plces you can access that from.
Also, hello, I guess I’ve stopped lurking.
Oh yeah, and I posted about this to the DW sewing community…. sewing.dreamwidth.org/12526.html
Thank you for this. Happy de-lurking!
thank you, I’m such an idiot when it comes to technology. But now I have my button!
You are a sly boots indeed… making it all easy for us to join your challenge! I’m gonna try really hard to get ahead this month so I can squeeze out a pair of pj’s at the last minute!! LOL
Bleurgh, I can’t make the button work :(. Probably my fault, I’m new at all this blogging malarky, but hey, who needs a button when they will very soon have some sexy new pjs? Ax
Alice – I couldn’t get it to work in Blogger either, so I did it this way:
Go to your Layout screen
Click “Add a Gadget”
Scroll down until you see “Picture” and click it
Leave the title and caption blank (unless you want it to show up on your blog page)
Put http://didyoumakethat.wordpress.com/tag/pyjama-party/ in the “Link” box
Choose “From the Web” for the image and put https://didyoumakethat.com/2012/04/pyjama-party-button.jpg?w=125&h=125 in the box
Save
Move gadget as necessary
Hope that helps! I don’t know enough about HTML to know why it doesn’t work the other way, but this was my go-around 🙂
Thank you very much Kristen! I was struggling too and getting frustrated at my lack of know-how, but your way has worked. My first button! Yay!
Hurray, it worked. Thanks so much Kristen x
I am so glad you put up this post! I have been struggling with how to get buttons to show up and was just today thinking I needed to come groveling to somebody to show me. Look at you — sewing tips and blogging help!