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Creating a content sidebar with widgets

Creating a content sidebar with widgets - WordPress Tutorial

From the course: WordPress for Education

Creating a content sidebar with widgets

- Our site is really coming together. Now let's finish off our base design by adding our custom content sidebar. Many themes have multiple widget regions, and this is something that we said in an earlier movie about themes that we were really looking for. And the Twenty Fourteen theme has a custom side bar that will show up over here that we can put content in. Let's go ahead and add our tag cloud and our custom lecture videos. We'll start off by going into the back end of our site, and once again, we're in the "Appearance" "Widgets" section, and here's that "Content Sidebar". To add in the tag cloud, there's a widget for "Tag Cloud", so all we need to do is drag that and drop it right into our custom sidebar. We'll go ahead and title it "Tag Cloud". We can choose to have our "Tag Cloud" use tags or "Categories" that we've set up. Because our students and our open participants are going to be adding their own custom tags to the site, we want all of those tags to be displayed here, so…

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