Creating Your Own WordPress Button

To monetize your blog using Google AdSense, maximizing visitor interaction is crucial. Among these interactions, visitors clicking buttons is one of the most effective ways to directly impact your revenue. In this post, we will explore how to create your own custom WordPress buttons for your blog.

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The Need for Creating Buttons in WordPress

In WordPress, a button refers to a clickable object like the ones below. When you hover your mouse over these buttons—or tap them on a mobile device—the color changes to provide visual feedback. What benefits do you get by mixing such buttons appropriately within your posts?

Unlike simple text links, buttons embedded in your content offer the following advantages:

1. Visual emphasis: Encourage visitors to click with a design that stands out.
2. Improve user experience: Utilize buttons to help people move seamlessly in or out of your blog.
3. Boost SEO and revenue: Increase time on blog by encouraging internal cycling of visitors (pressing a button sends them to other posts on your blog), and increase your Google AdSense earning potential.

How to Add Buttons in WordPress

In WordPress, you can add buttons by using your theme and plugins. Here, we’ll explain using the Button (Adv) block from the Kadence Theme as an example (see the image below).

Add a Button Block

Here’s how to add a button block first

1. Open the editor
   Edit a WordPress blog post or create a new one.
2. Select the Button(Adv) block
   Press the Add Block button (+), or press the forward slash (/) to add a Button(Adv) block. See the image below for a Button block!

If all goes well, you should see a button that looks like this

👉 Let’s set a link on this button block to connect to another page, post, or external website of your blog.

How to set up buttons

1. Enter button text
After you add a button, enter the text you want above the button. Example: “Learn more”

2. Linking a link
To add the link, click the button, then use the settings panel that appears on the right. In the right-side General settings panel, find the Button Link field (see the image below) and enter the URL you want to link to.

• In theButton Link field, enter the URL that you want to move to.
• After typing, tap the arrow icon to save the link.
  Example: https://wplaybook.com

Here’s an important tip: after entering the URL, you must click the arrow icon (→) next to the input field to finalize the link connection. If done correctly, clicking the button will take you to the intended site, just like the example button below.

3. Set button state style
If you want to customize the button’s color, shape, and other styles, you can do so in the Style panel. As you can see in the image below, there are plenty of settings available. Some of the main customization options include:

When inserting buttons into WordPress, there’s one important concept to keep in mind, and that’s the concept of Normal / Hover.

As shown above, Normal and Hover at the top of the settings window can be used to set the default state of the button and the colors that appear when hovered over.

• Normal: Sets the button color and style for the default state.
• Hover: Set the color and effect that appears when the user hovers the mouse over the button.

④ Add an icon (optional)
Your buttons can be more engaging to readers if they have an icon with visual information.

• You can add appropriate icons to your buttons to add visual appeal.
• For example, you can use an arrow icon for external links and a file icon for download links.

Finally, for a detailed explanation of icon settings, you can refer to the post below.

Tips for creating WordPress buttons

When creating WordPress buttons, keeping the following points in mind can help you achieve better results:

Optimize button design

• Text readability: Button text should be concise and clear, e.g.: “Free Download”
• Color combination: The button color should contrast with the background to make it stand out

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Utilize internal links

The key strength of a button is that it looks clickable—it invites visitors to click. Guiding your visitors to navigate through your blog via internal links is one of the best ways to improve your blog’s overall score and engagement.

• Utilize buttons to direct visitors to relevant pages inside your blog

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Main page and CTA buttons

They say words have power, and when writing for buttons, it’s a good idea to write the action you want your readers to take.

• Adding a call-to-action (CTA) button to your main page can increase click-through rates

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Best Practices for Creating WordPress Buttons

Here are some examples of different occasions where you can make good use of buttons on each page.

Where to use it	Description.
Inside a post	A link button that introduces a related post or external site.
Main page	Buttons to subscribe to a blog, sign up for a newsletter, or direct to a key service.
Sidebar	Link buttons to blog categories or popular posts.
Footer	Buttons to go to the contact, terms of use, and privacy policy pages.

What do you think? There are tons of uses for buttons if you apply them well, right?!

Conclusion and Additional Information

Now that you’ve learned how to create and use your own custom buttons in WordPress, it’s time to maximize visitor interaction on your blog by putting them into action. For more detailed instructions on customizing button icons and styles, c heck out this guide here.

If you want to explore other helpful guides to boost your blog management, be sure to take a look at the posts below:

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• How to see where readers click in your posts
• How to Triple Your AdSense RPM in 1 Month