Title: making sections Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # making sections * Anonymous * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-sections/) * When installed,Wordpress includes the following sections on the index page: author, categories,links,Archive,and admin. How would I go about adding more sections? Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * [winnie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winnie/) * (@winnie) * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-sections/#post-95419) * Simply edit the sidebar directly in the source code (WP 1.2 index.php, WP 1.3 in development sidebar.php). * Thread Starter Anonymous * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-sections/#post-95421) * Where would I go, to read more about adding sections to the index? I would like to add sections such as: Recent Activities. I would also like to have sectionâ €™s which have the same functionality as the “Categoriesâ€? section included in the WordPress instalation ,but rather it be named ,not “categoriesâ€? but “Newsâ€?. I understand that I have to edit the index, but, I need a detailed explanation on how,and where I have to edit. * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-sections/#post-95422) * Check this post: [http://wordpress.org/support/3/13615](http://wordpress.org/support/3/13615) for some info. Not sure what you mean by ‘News’ ? * [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/) * (@jonimueller) * [21 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-sections/#post-95423) * Anon, if you are smart, you will extract the entire section and make it a separate file (e.g., sidebar.php, links.php, etc.) and then use a php include to call the file where needed. This makes it easier (IMHO) to perform surgery on that section (which gets a lot of fiddling with on my site) without disturbing the rest of the index template. But I want to be sure I am clear on what you want. Do you want extra ITEMS on the sidebar or do you want to add extra pages? (Sorry, I’ve been work in TextPattern off and on this weekend and I got brain lock when I read the word “sections”!) When you say you want sections which have the same functionality as the Categories section, do you want an ADDITIONAL section or do you just want to change the name of the “Categories” section? In order to just change the name, all you need to do is edit the line below right after php_e to say whatever you wish. From the index.php file (WP 1.2): `