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What exactly is a widget-ready WordPress theme? | Theme Lab - 0 views

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  • Step 1: Check if the theme is widget-ready You can’t use widgets if the theme you’re using isn’t widget-ready in the first place. Navigate to your Presentation menu and proceed to the Widgets sub-menu of your administration panel. If you see something like this, you’re out of luck:
  • Step 1: Check if the theme is widget-ready You can’t use widgets if the theme you’re using isn’t widget-ready in the first place. Navigate to your Presentation menu and proceed to the Widgets sub-menu of your administration panel. If you see something like this, you’re out of luck:
  • Step 2: Use available widgets For the rest of the tutorial, we’ll be working with one of our widget-ready themes called Moonlit Sky. You’ll notice this particular free WordPress theme has two sidebars on the right side. Both of these sidebars are widgetized. Go ahead and drag some of the available widgets into the sidebar of your choice and save the changes. These changes will be reflected on your main site automatically. Some widgets have a little icon next to them where you can set things like the title of the widget to be displayed on the site. Here’s what the settings for the Categories widget looks like:
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  • Step 3: More widgets If you scroll further down the page you’ll see how to add additional widgets to the pool of available widgets. This is especially useful for the text widgets, since you can put pretty much any text or HTML-based item in them and display them where you want on the sidebar, just like any other widget. Simply select the number you want on the dropdown box, and save. For one final example, we’ll arrange the widgets like so, with two text widgets:
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