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Adding an Opera Button to WordPress: The Easy Way

Monday, 29. January 2007, 17:45:25

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A while back I wrote a post on adding an Opera button to WordPress using your blogroll. It turns out there's much easier way to do it on WordPress.com, using sidebar widgets.

If you are using a widget-capable theme:

  1. Go to the Presentation tab on your blog's dashboard, then click on Sidebar Widgets.
  2. Drag a Text widget to the sidebar, then click on Configure.
  3. Load another tab or window and open the Choose Opera: Banners and Buttons page.
  4. Copy the code from the banner you want, then paste it into the text widget box.
  5. Close the widget configuration box, then hit Save changes.


Much easier!

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Adding an Opera Button to WordPress

Tuesday, 17. October 2006, 20:10:08

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Want to put an Opera banner on your site, but don't know HTML? Here's how to add an Opera button to any WordPress.com or WordPress-powered blog.

Update: I realized there's a much easier way to do this using sidebar widgets.

  1. Log into your WordPress account and go to the admin page.
  2. Go to Blogroll (wordpress.com) or Links (WordPress 2 or earlier)
  3. Click on Add Link
  4. Enter "Opera Web Browser" (or something similar) for the Name ("Link Name" in WP2)
  5. Enter http://www.opera.com/ for the Address ("URI" in WP2)*
  6. Click on the + in the Advanced bar so that you can see the Image Address field. (Or just scroll down in WP2)
  7. Open a new tab and open Choose Opera: Banners and Buttons
  8. Right-click on the banner you want and choose Copy image address
  9. Go back to your WordPress admin tab and paste that into Image Address ("Image URI" in WP2)
  10. Click on the Add Link button.
That's it!

Note: Depending on your theme, it may show only the text link. I've found that on WordPress.com, the default sidebar will only show the text, but if you go to Presentation / Sidebar Widgets and drag the Links widget onto the sidebar, it will show the button.

*Advanced Option: Log into your account on the My Opera Community first. At the top of the Banners and Buttons page, you'll see something like this:
Link to us using your affiliate url: http://my.opera.com/YOUR_NAME_HERE/affiliate/
Copy and that URL and use it instead of http://www.opera.com/ in the Address field. This will get you affiliate points, which you can keep track of on your My Opera preferences page...though I'm not sure if the points are actually used for anything.

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