wordpress widgets and menus

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Alex Ruauxhttp://molecularcodewebdesign.comalex@molecularcodewebdesign.com

Beginners WordPress.com Course | West Island Women’s Centre |Winter 2014

Widgets

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What’s A Widget

A small tool that adds functionality or content to your site.

Usually in the sidebar (may be in footer).

e.g: calendar, photo stream, countdown, twitter feed, search box, social media icons, archive of posts, text and links etc...

Widgets in the Sidebar

text description

search box

calendar

archive dropdown

image

Types of Widgets

Widgets that help readers navigate your sitee.g. post archive, tag cloud, categories, search box

Widgets that share content and connecte.g. follow, like /tweet button

Widgets that pull in content from elsewheree.g. flickr stream, twitter feed

Versatilee.g. text and images

http://learn.wordpress.com/get-configured/#leswidgets

Menus

Menus

Need at least one menu for navigation

Top, sidebar, footer

Menu

Menu

Menu

Menu

Menus

Change the order of your pages

Create sub-menus by nesting pages under ‘parent’ pages

Create custom links

*Pages only show in the menu editor once published, not when a draft

http://learn.wordpress.com/get-published/#lecustommenu