Adding a widget to the sidebar in Wordpress

Adding a widget to the sidebar in Wordpress


There's no audio on this video yet. It's my first attempt at an online tutorial. I'll update it as soon as I learn more about adding audio either during recording or overlaying it later. This short video show's how to add a Text widget to the sidebar in Wordpress 2.8.4. A Text widget is used for custom code, like embedding a youtube video or other custom code or just plain text. Most wordpress themes are built with Sidebar widgets. They usually begin with a default list of Blogroll, Recent Posts, Categories and Meta Links (Wordpress links, etc.) As soon as you add one custom widget to the sidebar, the default items will go away (depending upon the theme). I'll be adding more tutorials later.