Creating and Editing Sidebar Widgets - Wordpress Tutorial

Take charge of your sidebar in Wordpress!

This video training shows you how to create and edit sidebar widgets in your self hosted Wordpress website. A summary of which is as follows:

Open 3 Tabs in Firefox

1. Your home page or Wordpress front-end.
2. Design > Widgets and
3. Write > Post

Having these 3 tabs open at the same time allows you to switch between them, and refresh the pages you’ve changed. Remember, Wordpress is a dynamic system and when you press Save changes are instant, BUT you have to reload the page to see them.

The exception to this is if you have a caching plugin installed that stores html pages on your site for extra speed. If this is the case you will have to turn this function off before trying to refresh a page.

The new post is used as a way to edit or create the code we need to paste into the text (HTML) widget in the second tab. We will not actually be publishing a post. This allows us to edit in a visual environment rather than a code or geek way.

NOTE: If you have more than one sidebar you will need to select the correct one from the Current Widgets selector and press Show.

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