How To Add Call-To-Action Buttons In WordPress (With/out Plugin)

Having proper Call-To-Action buttons can increase your conversion rates dramatically. 

If you are using WordPress, you are in luck. WordPress has a default option to add Call-To-Action buttons to your posts/pages. 

On top of that, there are a handful number of WordPress Call-To-Action button plugins available. You can use any of those plugins to add beautiful and conversion-optimized call-to-action buttons. 

Before moving further, let’s learn a bit more about the Call-To-Action Button.

What Is A Call-To-Action Button?

A Call-To-Action Button (a.k.a CTA Button) guides visitors to do something specific. It’s a part of a webpage that invites users to click to take a particular action. 

Here’s an example of a Call-To-Action button –

There are several types of CTA buttons. To help you to understand CTA buttons, here are some more examples.

Now let’s see how to add call-action-buttons.

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Adding Simple Call-To-Action Buttons Using Default Editor

The new WordPress Block Editor has a default ‘Button’ block. The ‘Button’ block lets you insert call-to-action buttons to your WordPress posts/pages. 

Let’s see how to add a call-to-action button using the WordPress block editor. 

At first, go to the post/page where you want to add the button.

Now simply click on the ‘+’ sign and search for ‘Buttons’ block. Then insert it on the editor. 

Then add text on the button. (Like Download Now, Sign Up, etc).

You can also add more buttons by clicking on the ‘+’ sign beside the button. 

You can insert link by click on the link icon from the button toolbar. 

You can change styles, text color, background color, border radius, and link settings of the button from the block options in the left hand side. 

That’s it. This is how you can add simple call-to-action buttons using the default WordPress block editor. 

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Adding Beautiful Call-To-Action Buttons Using ‘Ultimate Blocks’ Plugin

Now if you want to add more beautiful call-to-action buttons, you can use the Gutenberg Blocks plugin called ‘Ultimate Blocks’ plugin. 

Ultimate Blocks extends the functionality of the WordPress block editor by adding more blocks like button, image slider, call to action, click to tweet, social share, styled list, and more. 

Here we will show you how to add a call-to-action button using the ‘Button’ block of Ultimate Blocks. 

At first, you need to install the plugin. Just go to WordPress Dashboard > Plugins (1) > Add New (2) and search for ‘ultimate blocks’ (3) and click on the ‘Install Now’ button (4).

Now go to the post/page where you want to add the call-to-action block. Then simply click on the ‘+’ sign and search for ‘Button (Improved)’ block. 

After inserting the block, click on the button to edit text. 

You can add a link on the button by clicking on the link icon from the button toolbar. 

You can add more buttons by clicking on the ‘+’ sign beside the button. 

You can change button size, width, link settings, style, icon, colour, colour on hover, and more from the left-hand side options. 

This way you can add more beautiful buttons using the ‘Ultimate Blocks’ plugin. 

Another great thing about Ultimate Blocks is, it has a ‘Call To Action’ block that lets you add call-to-action buttons like this –

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More Call-To-Action Buttons WordPress Plugins

If you want to add buttons with more functionality, you can consider using a dedicated button plugins. Here are some of the popular button plugins. 

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Conclusion

So this is how you can add call-to-action buttons to your WordPress posts/pages.

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