WordPress Basics: Add Widgets to Your Site

by Rachel McCollin26 Sep 2016

Lessons:2Length:10 minutes

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Introduction

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Widgets let you add extra content in specific areas of your WordPress site, such as the sidebar and footer. Widgets make it easy to customize your site with menus, text or other content that will be displayed on every page.

In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor Rachel McCollin will show you how to use this really useful feature of WordPress. You'll learn how to add widgets to the different parts of your site, how to configure and delete them, and also how to use a plugin for rich text editing in your widgets.

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1.WordPress Basics: Add Widgets to Your Site
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Introduction
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Rachel mccollin jan2015 tutsplus

Rachel McCollin

Rachel McCollin is a WordPress developer who writes books, articles and tutorials about web design and development, with a focus on WordPress and on responsive and mobile development. She runs a web design agency in Birmingham, UK and has published three books on WordPress, including WordPress: Pushing the Limits, an advanced resource for WordPress developers. She's currently writing her fourth book.

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