Widgets: Categories
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Builds a list or drop down of all of the categories that you have used on your site. The categories will be linked to a list of posts that have this category assigned to them.
Builds a list or drop down of all of the categories that you have used on your site. The categories will be linked to a list of posts that have this category assigned to them.
Widgets: Editing a Widget
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Editing a Widget To edit a widget, all you have to do is click the arrow on the right side of the widgets you have already added to your sidebar. The widget edit interface will fly out and some options will appear. You can change any of the options, press the ...
Widgets: Search
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Puts a search box on your site that will allow visitors to search all of the content on your site by keyword or phrase. When users search then WordPress will list out the posts that match the search criteria.
Widgets: Links
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Shows all of the blogroll or other links that you have added to your site. In your sidebar each link section will be listed out with the links under the section header.
Widgets: Calendar
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Builds a calendar with the days of the calendar linked if there were one or most posts on that day. This is useful for your visitors to see that you consistently post to your site and they can see what you posted about in the past.
Widgets: Pages
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Gives a list of links to the pages on your site. This is very useful for giving your visitors another way to find your pages, other than your site's menu.
Widgets: Recent Posts
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Shows a list of the most recent posts that you have published on your site. This is very useful if someone comes to a specific place on your site without seeing the homepage.
Widgets: Recent Comments
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Shows a list of the most recent comments submitted to any post or page on your site. This is a great feature to help your visitors see the conversation that is currently happening on your site.
Widgets: RSS
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Allows you to pull in an RSS feed from any other site and show it on your site. This is a great feature to help promote another site that you like to your visitors.
Widgets: Tag Cloud
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Creates a list in paragraph form of the most commonly used tags from your posts. The tags used the most will be shown larger than other tags. Each word in this "cloud" will be linked to a page of the posts associated with that tag.
WordPress Widgets: How to Use them, what they do
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Widgets were a HUGE deal when WordPress added them in as a feature, before adding them in to the core system widgets functionality was added through a plugin. This was clumsy but it worked well at the time. Since being added to WordPress core widgets have allowed site owners to manage ...
Plugin: Post Notification
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Plugin Home Page: http://pn.strübe.de/ WordPress Plugin Page: http://WordPress.org/extend/plugins/post-notification/ What is it? This plugin will send an email to anyone who subscribes to be notified whenever a new post is published on the site. Install Directions Follow the normal plugin installation procedure, then once the plugin is installed you will want to add the widget to ...
