Learing WordPress Tips

Following my last post, I thought I’d actually take some of my own advice.

It may not look it, but there’s been about 2 hours of work gone into this blog.

Where you might ask. As indeed you may. I’ve wandered through the wordpress options and found the “widgets”. These are little gadgets that allow you, with a widget enabled theme, to arrange the links on the left. This should meant that when I change the theme, or enable the themes to be saved as preferances, they won’t change. Handy for when a theme compleatly walks all over those handy META links that this blog contains.

The most useful one is that “text widget”. This little thing allows you to create a panel and put whatever you like in it. In my case I have used it to create the “Promote this blog” links.

This is fairly straight-forward to do, once you know how.

Open your wordpress administrator, and go to “Presentation->Widgets”, scroll down the page and see the “Text Widget”. Next to it is a “Save” button. Logic would say this would be a “Create”, or “New”, but there we go. Click this, and it will tell you that it’s been created.

You will then find it in the “widget” secion that will allow you to add it to the sidebars. From here, click on the right “configure” bit, give it a title, and put your html in the big box. To close it, just click the X and it will save.

Save the whole thing, and take a look at your new widget.

Neat huh?

BX