Working with WordPress Widgets
In the past, modifying your blog sidebar required mucking around with your theme code, and even knowing a bit of PHP. Fortunately, WordPress widgets eliminate the hassle by allowing bloggers to easily configure a custom sidebar with drag-and-drop ease.
The WordPress community has developed a large and growing collection of widgets that will allow you to plug all sorts of things into your WordPress sidebar. From Flickr photos to your Twitter status, if there’s something you’d like to add to your blog sidebar, chances are there’s a widget to help you do it.
This video is an introduction to installing and using WordPress Widgets.
Version 2.5.x
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Kirk,
These are wonderful videos! I’ve spent the last couple weeks learning the new 2.5 interface, and dealing with issues like image uploading and missing IDs. Your videos are really helpful. The widget video is timely for me. I’m trying to figure out how to modify the functions.php file to create a text widget using definition lists, and not having much luck.
Do you have plans for a future video on customizing the functions.php file?