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Alicia Lyttle & Lorette Lyttle of Monetized Marketing - Creating a Custom widget

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When building your WordPress Blog, you have many options to add widgets to your sidebars. WordPress comes with a variety of default widgets such as Calendar, Recent Posts, Recent Comments and more.

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Alicia Lyttle & Lorette Lyttle of Monetized Marketing - Creating a

Custom WidgetThis is the quick and easy way….1.Click on Posts, then Add New

2. Now you will create a post with the images and text that you want to put in your sidebar (insert images, text, links etc)

3. Click on HTML and copy the HTML code <– this is the secret tip!!

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4. Now you can close the post (don’t actually make it a live post). When you leave the site, it will ask you if you want to save the post, go ahead and choose “No”

5. Click on Appearance, Widgets, then Text Widgets. Drag the text widget into the sidebar that you wish for it to appear.

6. Paste the HTML code into the Text widget

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7. Save the widget, now check your blog. You may have to do a little editing, but it should look like the post you created.

This tip allows you to make a custom sidebar widget … and it’s so quick and easy!

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