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www.treacyinfo. com Introducing Widgets Ann Treacy [email protected] www.byteoftheweek.com

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Page 1: Introducing WordPress Widgets

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Introducing Widgets

Ann Treacy

[email protected]

www.byteoftheweek.com

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What is it?

• A fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from the sidebar(s) of your website.

• Add functionality to your website.

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My Favorite Widgets - Text

• Text– Add text and/or html to

the sidebar– Add some third party

code– Not all third party code

will work

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Mini-Lesson: Short Code• A list of many

sanctioned third party partners

• Simple code make it easy to add functionality to a site

http://en.support.wordpress.com/category/shortcodes/

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My Favorites – Follow Blog

• Invite people to get email updates each time you add a new post

• Does not track changes in pages – or old posts.

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My Favorites – Upcoming Events

• Shows a calendar of events

• Uses Google Calendar as backend

• Events can also be embedded in posts/pages

• Options based on themes

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My Favorites - Categories

• Allows you to organize posts by topic• Great for search engine optimization• Nice for visitors• You do have to remember to attach a

category to each post

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My Favorites - Search

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My Favorites – RSS

• Post updates from other websites

• You need