Comments on: How to Use WordPress Widgets

By: Kirk

Kirk — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:08:41 +0000

@Christian If your theme has a widgetized sidbar you can simply drop the Text Widget onto the sidebar, then manually enter the IMG tag with the image that you want to display. You can even upload the image through the media manager and use the URL generated by the media manager as your SRC attribute.

Alternately, I’m sure there are a number of plugins that solve this same problem in any number of different ways (pulling images from Flickr or other services, etc.).

By: Christian Cuniah

Christian Cuniah — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:56:39 +0000

Is it possible to have a plugin or widget whereby one can put a picture in the sidebar?

By: jay

jay — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:20 +0000

Hi Kirk

Thanks for this wonderful video you have made on Widget. I am very new to WordPress but have very good knowledge on blogger. I was looking in google crazy for tutorials for learning how to arrange widgets like that of blogger and had no luck.

Your video help me to understand how to do that.

Thanks a million. Fan of your blog.

Alam
twitter.com/alamj2000

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Blog Widgets « Blog Garage — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:01:13 +0000

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By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 06 May 2008 03:21:09 +0000

Kirk,

These are wonderful videos! I’ve spent the last couple weeks learning the new 2.5 interface, and dealing with issues like image uploading and missing IDs. Your videos are really helpful. The widget video is timely for me. I’m trying to figure out how to modify the functions.php file to create a text widget using definition lists, and not having much luck.

Do you have plans for a future video on customizing the functions.php file?