Title: Arcade (basic) theme question
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Arcade (basic) theme question

 *  [dollyrockfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dollyrockfarm/)
 * (@dollyrockfarm)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/arcade-basic-theme-question/)
 * I have chosen Arcade basic for my theme. I am fairly new as a wordpress user 
   and can’t say I understand a lot of it.
 * I would like to add widgets to the side bar, such as social links or a subscribe
   to email bar, and other things. I cannot see that custom widgets are allowed?
   I just want to make sure I am clear on this. The upgrade is 69$ which seem kind
   of pricey. I reviewed the offerings for the upgrade and cannot find anything 
   that talks about adding custom widgets there either. I can’t ask a question there
   either as it warns not to contact them with technical issues and I was redirected
   here.
 * If I cannot what do I do? I spent days looking thru hundreds of themes and this
   is the only one I found that I like. Is there one that looks super similar? If
   I can’t add follower widgets then what is the point of having the blog to begin
   with?
 * Please help!

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 *  Thread Starter [dollyrockfarm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dollyrockfarm/)
 * (@dollyrockfarm)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/arcade-basic-theme-question/#post-5221324)
 * Really? No answers at all?
 *  [50020](https://wordpress.org/support/users/50020-1/)
 * (@50020-1)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/arcade-basic-theme-question/#post-5221479)
 * Not sure what you mean by custom widgets. A widget is a widget, no matter wether
   it is a standard wordpress one, or a purchased one, or a hand-coded one.
 * The sidebar is capable of taking widgets on the ‘basic’ version. The premium 
   version also has widgets in the footer.
 * Widgets are simply draged-and-dropped on the widgets settings page in the normal
   wordpress admin screen.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/arcade-basic-theme-question/#post-5221479)
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