Title: Theme/Formatting in Widgets?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme/Formatting in Widgets?

 *  [shezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shezie/)
 * (@shezie)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/)
 * I am using several text based widgets on my sidebar. I’d like to change the fonts,
   alignment, etc. How do I do that? I’m using the standard “Links” “Categories”
   and “Recent Posts” that come already in WordPress. Also, is it possible to add
   borders or backgrounds? Or to break up the widgets down the column with something
   that is not a widget? (Once my widgets start on the sidebar, it is all widgets
   from there on down.)
 * My site: [http://www.chagrinfallspto.org](http://www.chagrinfallspto.org)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/#post-1199450)
 * If you still have widgets on your right sidebar, then I’m afraid that, in that
   theme, there’s isn’t an obvious way to target the fonts etc in the widgets without
   potentially impacting the rest of your site. The theme’s functions.php file would
   need to be modified to add the necessary styling classes/hooks.
 *  Thread Starter [shezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shezie/)
 * (@shezie)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/#post-1199496)
 * Thanks. At least that reassures me that I’ve not overlooked something obvious.
   🙂
 * I’ll check in to the functions file and see how scary editing that is for me.
 *  Thread Starter [shezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shezie/)
 * (@shezie)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/#post-1199497)
 * What about adding a second sidebar on the other side? Would that allow me to 
   build it from the beginning and do what I want with it? I could just carry on
   putting photos and pages on the right side.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/#post-1199500)
 * > What about adding a second sidebar on the other side?
 * That would involve a major theme re-build because the current theme simply isn’t
   structured to allow for a left-hand sidebar.
 * As it stands, there’s still plenty of room at the bottom of your right sidebar
   for more page links and photos (although I’d keep the latter fairly small, if
   I was you). What you seem to need right now is more control over the right sidebar
   widget styling. Have a look at:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes)
 * and
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets_Api/register_sidebar](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets_Api/register_sidebar)
 *  Thread Starter [shezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shezie/)
 * (@shezie)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/themeformatting-in-widgets/#post-1199522)
 * Thanks! You’ve been a great help.

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