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Video Tutorial: Adding a (Dynamic) Widget

June 22, 2011 by Sallie Goetsch 1 Comment

The text widget is one of the worst-named and most overlooked features in WordPress. It’s not just for text, but for images and HTML code or JavaScript. (Advanced text widgets even let you include PHP.) Easily add e-mail sign-up forms, linked images, and anything else to your WordPress sidebar just by pasting the code into a text widget.

This 7-minute video walks you through how to add a text widget containing HTML code to your WordPress site, how to move widgets from one widgetized area to another, and through a quick overview of the options provided with the Dynamic Widgets plugin.

Dynamic Widgets lets you decide which pages, posts, categories, etc. you want to show your widget on–including date ranges, in case it’s a widget showing a special offer. You can customize the look of your sidebar, footer, and other widgetized areas without having to create special template files the way you did in the old days.

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  1. allison bliss says

    June 22, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    BRILLIANT Salie! Even I get it from your excellent demo here. Ah that sidebar has always baffled me. I feel so (dangerously) enlightened now. thanks! Allison

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