How to ADD a WordPress Text Widget
WordPress is a phenomenal piece of blogging and cms(Content Management System) software. WordPress sets the standard for a brilliantly designed open source php (Hypertext Preprocessor) software that has stood the test of time. WordPress is simple enough for the amateur blogger yet powerful enough to test the skills of the advanced web developer. The WordPress text widgets are great for adding your own custom side boxes, atom 1.0 feed, rss (Rich Site Summary / Really Simply Syndication) feed syndication, or even a more complicated coding script that you have developed and wish to implement on the front end of your WordPress blogging software for your users. Have you ever wondered how you could add your own custom html (HyperText Markup Language) or css (Cascading Style Sheets) coding into a customized WordPress widget? Well you can, it’s easy, here is how to do it…
Step 1. Launch a web browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
Step 2. Browse to your WordPress admin dashboard and log in with your username and password credentials.
Step 3. Locate the left menu pane on your WordPress admin dashboard.
Step 4. Locate the “Appearance” option in your left menu pane.
Step 5. Hover your mouse cursor over “Appearance” and locate the “Widgets” option.
Step 6. Left click once on “Widgets.”
Step 7. Locate the “Available Widgets” area. This is all of the available widgets that you are able to utilize on your WordPress installation. You may also have an “Inactive Widgets,” “Primary,” “Secondary,” “Header,” “Footer,” etc…These are all areas that either house inactive widgets or display your WordPress widgets on the front end of your WordPress installation website.
Step 8. Locate the “Text” widget box under the “Available Widgets” area. The “Text” widget box may be near the bottom of the “Available Widgets” area.
Step 9. Left click and hold onto the “Text” widget and drag and drop the “Text” widget where ever you would like it displayed on the front end of your WordPress installation. You are going to want to drag and drop the “Text” widget in one of the sidebar areas such as “Primary” or “Secondary” or in the “Header” or “Footer” section of your WordPress installation website.
Step 10. Input the “Title:” and the “Content:” sections of the text widget or leave one or both areas empty, it is up to you what you want to put inside of the text widget box.
That is it! Simply verify the title and content areas are how you want them (you can always edit these areas) and left click once on “Save” and that is it. You have successfully added a WordPress Text Widget.
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