Widgets and Plugins

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  • wp-rory

    (@wp-rory)

    17 years ago

    Hi John,

    What you need to do is go to your Widgets menu (Appearance > Widgets) and select or drag across the ‘Meta’ widget to your sidebar. This widget contains a log in link that users can click on to get through to the login page. If you click on ‘edit’ on the widget button you can also select a title for it, such as ‘Log In Here’ or whatever you like.

    Make sure to click ‘Done’ and ‘Save Changes’ and then visit your site and you should see it there. Be aware that you may now have to rebuild your sidebar using widgets as the content in your sidebar will have all been replaced by that one widget. If you are using widgets, WordPress automatically shows your widgets instead of the theme’s original sidebar content.

    I hope that helps,

    All the best,

    Rory. 🙂

    Thread Starter johnthomas19

    (@johnthomas19)

    17 years ago

    Thanks for the tips Rory.
    I see I have a handful of widgets available for activation, but is there anyway to add more? I saw a pretty extensive list of widgets on wordpress.org, but I’m not clear on how to download in order to access them. Is there a specific folder I need to save newly downloaded widget files to.

    Thanks,

    wp-rory

    (@wp-rory)

    17 years ago

    Hi,

    Very often widgets come bundled with plugins – when you install the plugin, the widget is included aswell. Installing a plugin is as easy as downloading it, unzipping it, and then uploading the folder within to your wp-content/plugins/ folder. Once you have activated it, when you go to click on Widgets (Appearance > Widgets) you should see the new widget(s) available for use.

    Rory. 🙂

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