Creating a button in Kirby

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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.

4

Hi, I am also trying to implement a button on a page in Kirby. The goal is that the buttons leads via link to a hubspot form. What is the easiesrt way to do this?

5

The options are outlined above: Creating a button in Kirby - #2 by texnixe, so it depends where you want to have this button

6

Thanks. I want to place the within a page (blogpost). This button should lead to a Hubspot form which I would create in Hubspot. So is the first option the right one for this?

7

Depends on what you are using to create text content in your page and if the button should be place inside that text. Please post the corresponding blueprint if unsure.