Adding Widgets to WordPress

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Hello everyone, today I will tell how to add and configure widget in wordpress. Adding widgets to WordPress is one of the powerful ways to improve website usability, structure and functionality.

Widget used to refer to tools or content. These elements are usually found on one of the sidebars of a WordPress site. Widget content may change, new tools or content may be added.

Thanks to widgets, you can flexibly customize the sidebar blocks on your WordPress site (blog). The widget is necessary to expand the functionality of the site by adding content blocks, menus, calendars, galleries and other interesting tools to the sidebars of the site.

The content of the article:

• Adding and configuring widgets in WordPress
• Widgets in my WordPress installation
• Retain Widgets When Changing WordPress Theme Template

Where to find widgets? Finding them is easy, in the admin panel menu hover over Appearance and click on Widgets. See image below:

Adding and configuring widgets in WordPress

In the WordPress admin panel, find in the main menu Appearance – Widgets. As soon as you go to the page, you will see a list of available widgets on your site. The list may vary, it depends on the installed plugins and themes, which may have their own integrated widgets.

For example, I have this list: see image

You may have a different list of available widgets.

To activate widget, you need to drag it to the right panel of the sidebar to the available places (zones) on the site for display. They also depend on your theme and its grid.

To deactivate or delete widget, you need to drag it back to the left panel or click delete in the widget itself.

Once you have dragged the widget onto the sidebar panel, you can customize it. For example, enter a name, set up fields (depending on the tool used). After setting click on "Save". After saving, it will appear in the specified location on the site.

Thus, all the widgets you need are added.

Widgets in my WordPress installation

As I said earlier, each of you will have your own set of widgets. I have it like this:

• Arbitrary HTML code.
• Responsive video link from YouTube or Vimeo.
• Displays a list of posts, comments, and tags in tabs.
• Shows posts from a rubric.
• Widget to display Reviews.
• Entries from any RSS or Atom feed.
• Widget to display location.
• An archive of your site's posts by month.
• Shows the audio player.
• A widget containing a block.
• Shows videos from the media library or from YouTube, Vimeo or another provider.
• Displays the number of comments that Akismet flagged as spam.
• Shows an image gallery.
• Shows an image.
• Website post calendar.
• Add a navigation menu to the sidebar.
• Shortcodes Ultimate Widget

Below are images that clearly show my widgets.

Please note that the sidebar area is different depending on the theme you are using. I have three columns and can apply widgets to the full width of the footer. It all depends on your template, take care of this functionality in advance.

Retain Widgets When Changing WordPress Theme Template

In some cases Widgets may be lost when changing the theme template. To avoid this problem, before changing your WordPress template (theme), move your active widgets to the "Inactive Widgets". Below is an image showing this block.

Once you change your WordPress theme to another, simply move the already configured widget to a new location in the sidebar panel.

So you have learned how to add, edit and remove widgets in WordPress. Everything is simple and does not take much time, in the following articles I will talk a little about setting up the menu in WordPress, setting the required number of posts displayed in the main feed of the site. And also, a little about changing the main page of the site to displaying posts. I hope my instructions are informative and clear, if you have any questions, please leave a comment.

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