How to Use WordPress Widgets in Your Theme

How to Use WordPress Widgets in Your Theme


www.londonseoexpert.com How to Use WordPress Widgets in Your Theme Duration: 5 mins 27 secs In this video, I'm going to show you how to customize the appearance of your WordPress blog by using WordPress widgets. Now, to access the WordPress widgets, all you need to do is log in to your WordPress dashboard, and under Appearance, click on Widgets. And you should be able to see the main widgets screen right here. Now, with WordPress version 3.0 and the default 2010 theme, you should be able to see several widget areas -- the Primary Widget Area, the Secondary Widget Area, First Footer Widget Area, Second Footer, Third Footer, Fourth Footer, etc., etc. So the Primary and Secondary Widget Areas are on your WordPress themes sidebar. And then you have four widget areas just for the footer. So first, let's take a look at the default 2010 theme. Okay? And you can see, this is the sidebar area right here, and by default, the theme displays the Archives and also the Meta. And if I scroll down, I'll be able to see in the footer area here...she's pretty empty, okay...say you can see there's nothing in the footer area except the blog title. So let's get started using WordPress widgets. Now, the first thing you need to do is to determine where you want to put all these available widgets. Now, these are just the default widgets, but if you've installed other plugins, then you should be able to see many other different WordPress widgets appear in this section over here. So the first thing ...