WordPress Tutorial - Use a Text Widget to Customize Sidebar

LATEST TUTORIALS: http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com
CODE FOR THIS TUTORIAL HERE: http://mcbuzz.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/wordpress-tutorial-how-to-use-text-wid...
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 http://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.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• wordpress
• tutorial
• text
• HTML
• widget
• sidebar
• image
• widgetized
• widget-enabled
• mcbuzz
• markmclaren

[manfandan]

what code did YOU USE??????

[mcbuzzvideo]

@manfandan

The code is available on my Business Blogging 101 website. YouTube does not let me put URLs in these comments, so you need to do a Google search for "Business Blogging 101". You'll find my site at the top of the page.

On the BB101 site, use the search box in the top right of the page to search for "text widget". The post you need is "WordPress Tutorial – How to Use a Text Widget to Customize a WordPress Sidebar"

[SCOOBYisMAD]

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

[stephen620924]

hi! i'm trying to get rid of a link in my sidebar but dont see it in the php file or as a text widget it just appears on my site but the php file doesnt seem to have any editable content or text

[stephen620924]

Thanks for the video!!

[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

[sharkguy95]

me too!

[susubear13]

Thank you so much!

[megawealth1]

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

[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 :)

[videoaccountforcat]

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