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HOWTO: Add a custom style to any WordPress widget with a plugin

Rebecca Markowitz | August 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

The Problem

On a WordPress site that we recently built, there were several text widgets in use - one for About Us, one for a Facebook Social Plugin, and one for a newsletter signup form.

The problem was that we wanted each one of these text widget areas to be styled slightly differently - some with

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How to rename widgetized sidebars in WordPress

Rebecca Markowitz | November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments

You can manage multiple sidebar widgets in WordPress. To do so, you go to the Widgets page in the Admin, and select the Sidebar you want to manage. If you have 1 widgetized sidebar, the name "Sidebar 1" is not a big deal for managing it. But what if you have 5 or ... View Post

Easily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom Function Widgets plugin

| February 8, 2008 | 2 Comments

One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren't widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can't really do with widgets. Well, now you can widgetize your sidebar and add both widgets and non-widget plugins to it with ... View Post

Interview with Yedda’s head of Community Marketing about new Feedflare modules for bloggers

| January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yedda is an Israeli start up with a web-based questions and answer service that is generally agreed to rival that of Yahoo Answers. Yedda's technology powers many independent Q&A services as well, including ePals and TheJobNetwork (via ... View Post

Share your Shared items from Google Reader in your blog

| April 12, 2007 | 0 Comments

A little while ago one of the commenters here asked if I knew how to display shared items from Google Reader in a blog, such as in the sidebar. David Paul Robinson explains how to put a "clip" on your blog that contains your shared items. You could probably also use one of ... View Post

WordPress Widgets (WPW) is a plugin designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content without having to change any code.

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