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Introducing Widgets
Ann Treacy
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 – RSS
• Post updates from other websites
• You need
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Questions or more info:http://en.support.wordpress.com/category/widgets-sidebars
/ Thank you!