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‘Widgets’ are the WordPress for little specialized packets of code that grab a certain type of content – testimonials, maybe, or a tag cloud, or a list of recent posts – from your site’s database, massage that content in some way, and then present it on-screen inside a supplemental content area built into your site’s template (often in a right column beside the main content column, or below that content.)<\/p>\n
Most of our themes contain several widgetized areas, so you’ll have a nice range of choices when deciding how to incorporate extra bonus content on your pages and posts. Working with widgets is really simple.<\/p>\n
In your admin screen’s lefthand navigation menu, go to ‘Appearance’ \/ ‘Widgets’. This takes you to the Widget management screen. There are two boxes in the left column:<\/p>\n
In this screen’s right column is a list of all the widgetized areas available in your current Theme (WordPress’s term for a visual template). In our family of themes, many widgetized areas are consistent across themes. Usually:<\/p>\n
You can explore the placement of your theme’s other widget areas for yourself, but right now let’s experiment quickly with a commonly-used widget.<\/p>\n
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‘Widgets’ are the WordPress for little specialized packets of code that grab a certain type of content – testimonials, maybe, or a tag cloud, or a list of recent posts – from your site’s database, massage that content in some way, and then present it on-screen inside a supplemental content area built into your site’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[26,23],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mighty-little-websites.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}