WordPress Tutorial – Use a Text Widget to Customize Sidebar
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LATEST TUTORIALS: mcbuzz.wordpress.com CODE FOR THIS TUTORIAL HERE mcbuzz.wordpress.com This Intermediate level WordPress tutorial shows how to use a text widget to customize a WordPress sidebar. To see the final product of the tutorial in the Business Blogging 101 website and the HTML code used in this example, go to mcbuzz.wordpress.com and search for “text widget”. Widgets are a very useful feature of most new WordPress themes. These are called “widget enabled” or “widgetized” themes or “widget enabled” or “widgetized” sidebars. They allow you to add custom content to your sidebars with little or no knowledge of HTML or other code. In an earlier tutorial, I showed how to add Flickr photos to a WordPress sidebar using the Flickr photo widget. The example I use in this tutorial shows how to create a custom text box with a short biographical note and part of that text is a link. In PART TWO of this tutorial, I show how to insert an image into the same custom sidebar box, along with a LinkedIn profile “badge”. You can use these techniques to put whatever you want into your own WordPress sidebar.
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what code did YOU USE??????
what when you have a html text ?
i`m trying to put it into text but it shows up as a html text on the page not as a figure?
what should i do?
thanks in advance
me too!
Thank you so much!
Thanks for sharing this with us, I was confused as to how this all worked but now have a much better ide.
I’ having trouble because my widget page has a different theme s i cant do it how do i get a different widget theme??please reply
Helpful video, thank you. It would be great if you updated this to reflect WordPress’ new dashboard and widget choices.
Thank you! That was SERIOUSLY helpful! Yay!
Thank You So Much! Now I Can Make My Website Better!
=( i really needed to know how to put a picture or a video there!
this was absolutely fantastic, can’t wait to see the rest of your videos
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