Today’s post is going to be a complete explanation of how categories and tags work on WordPress, how they help your readers discover older posts, and how to use them in unique and interesting ways to add functionality to your site. What is a category on WordPress? A category is a way to organize your […]
How To Create an EPIC Sidebar For Your WordPress Clients
The sidebar on a website is prime real estate. For most of us, it holds our newsletter sign up form, our social media buttons, about profile, plus a host of other things like Ads, buttons, awards, etc. It is difficult to fit too much on the sidebar without it scrolling for days past a post […]
Cheats and Hacks: Trick Out Sidebar Widgets When You Don’t Know HTML Code
Problem #1: I want to add formatting to a text widget, but I don’t know the HTML for it! This is a common problem for bloggers who want to add a photo (usually left aligned) with text that is either bold or italicized, formatted with colors, and needing to go in a sidebar. How now […]
How to Add an Image to Your Sidebar
I’m going to write out specific instructions for adding images to your sidebar for each of the three major platforms- WP.com, WP.org, and Blogger. WP.COM It’s important to realize that if you have WP.com, you do NOT have the option to add extra widgets. Sometimes different themes come with slightly different widgets, but most of […]