Adding a widget to your sidebar
Widgets let you customize the content that appears in the sidebar(s) of your blog. This video walks you through the basics of adding widgets.
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9 responses to “Adding a widget to your sidebar”
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I love it!
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I want to see all my sidebars at once and be able to rearrange widgets at will. This widget-handling scheme costs me way too much time. I hate it.
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I watched ‘adding a widget’ in feverish anticipation. Alas, what I needed wasn’t mentioned. I have been trying to add photos and cute little buttons and doo-dads into my sidebars. I look at other bloggers and they have all sorts of colorful things added, alas no such luck for me. I have tried to follow various instructions that are scattered through wordpress. No luck. I have gone to other sites that offer widgets, copied their templates, pasted it into the widget called TEXT, and still….it doesn’t work.
How do I add photos, buttons and colorful doo-dad widgets into my sidebars?
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Hi steadycat – WordPress.com has less options than the self-hosted version at present as to what you can put into a widget, for security reasons. However, adding images and buttons is doable and featured in the video I put together on the text widget. We’re looking to expand the range of options available for WordPress.com widgets in the not too distant future
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Thank you Michael. I’ll look for Text Widgets. Cheers.
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i like it
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Hi Michael, I’ve been doing customized sidebars for a long time and really liked being able to include different CONTENT on different types of pages – ie – sidebar-home.php for home page – sidebar-single.php for single pages and sidebar-12.php for the category that is 12.
Maybe I am nmissing something but it appears widgets as they are don’t allow me this ability.
Is it possible to put different widgets on different sidebars???
That way I wouldn’t have to have the same thing on all 10,000 pages of my site :’>
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Hi Mike – sounds like you’re self-hosting? If so, this has been discussed a fair bit in the WordPress.org support forums (I linked directly to the appropriate tag). Hope that helps.
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January 12, 2009
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