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.

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12 Comments

  1. selinisyd3

    this was absolutely fantastic, can’t wait to see the rest of your videos

  2. SCOOBYisMAD

    =( i really needed to know how to put a picture or a video there!

  3. sonicminneapolis

    Thank You So Much! Now I Can Make My Website Better! :D

  4. SirFluff123

    Thank you! That was SERIOUSLY helpful! Yay!

  5. videoaccountforcat

    Helpful video, thank you. It would be great if you updated this to reflect WordPress’ new dashboard and widget choices.

  6. skaterlove7825

    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 :)

  7. megawealth1

    Thanks for sharing this with us, I was confused as to how this all worked but now have a much better ide.

  8. susubear13

    Thank you so much!

  9. hulahop28

    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

  10. manfandan

    what code did YOU USE??????

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