WordPress Tutor
WordPress Tutorial – Use a Text Widget to Customize Sidebar
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.
October 7th, 2008 at 10:21 am
this was absolutely fantastic, can’t wait to see the rest of your videos
October 7th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
=( i really needed to know how to put a picture or a video there!
November 18th, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Thank You So Much! Now I Can Make My Website Better!
February 16th, 2009 at 3:30 am
Thank you! That was SERIOUSLY helpful! Yay!
May 17th, 2009 at 4:39 pm
Helpful video, thank you. It would be great if you updated this to reflect WordPress’ new dashboard and widget choices.
July 17th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
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
August 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Thanks for sharing this with us, I was confused as to how this all worked but now have a much better ide.
October 6th, 2009 at 4:06 am
Thank you so much!
October 15th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
me too!
November 25th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
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
January 12th, 2010 at 2:47 am
what code did YOU USE??????