Creating a button in Kirby

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
1

Hi,

Creating a button in Kirby… I just can’t seem to work it out.

What are the easiest ways?

a. What Blueprint field(s) is best practice so it’s easy for myself and/or clients.
b. How to set up the PHP.

Examples:

  1. The URL: https://getkirby.com/. The text: getkirby.com
  2. The URL: https://getkirby.com/. The text: Get Kirby

I’m probably going to kick myself but, I cant seem to figure it out and there’s not much info in the forum.

Thanks in advance!

2

There are multiple ways, and it depends on where the button is going to be used. Your button examply is not really a button but a link, styled as button.

  • in a textarea field: use a link kirbytag and style as button on the frontend if really necessary: (link: …) | Kirby CMS
  • in a blocks/layout field: create a custom button block: Blocks | Kirby CMS
  • a structure field with a single item with one field for text and on for the link can be use for a stand-alone button
  • The link field plugins provides another way for a stand-alone button: Link Field | Kirby CMS
  • If you want to link to a page, a pages field could be used to select the page to link to (url and text would come from the selected page)
3

Brilliant! This is really helpful! I think I’ll go with the Blocks for now but the Link Field plugin seems really interesting.

Thanks for your help.