Widgets can be found on Appearance at the Main Navigation Menu. It shows other components of your website on your sidebar.

To use the widgets, just drag it from the Available widgets on the left side and then drop it on the sidebar where you want your widgets to appear. You can re-arrange them in the order that you want for your websites.


Below are the basic widgets you can use on your website.

  • Archives - A monthly archive of your site’s Posts.
  • Calendar - A calendar of your site’s Posts.
  • Categories - A list or dropdown of categories.
  • Custom Menu - Add a custom menu to your sidebar.
  • Meta - Login, RSS, & WordPress.org links.
  • Pages - A list of your site’s Pages.
  • Recent Comments - Your site’s most recent comments.
  • Recent Posts - Your site’s most recent Posts.
  • RSS - Entries from any RSS or Atom feed.
  • Search - A search form for your site.
  • Tag Cloud - A cloud of your most used tags.
  • Text - Arbitrary text or HTML.

There are some new Widgets added because of activating a new Plugin installed that will need to use Widgets.

There were also new Widgets added because it is required by some free or premium Themes that you will use.

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I created a second page. When I went to the different pages, and used the parent button - the pages are switched around. Is it supposed to be like that?

No, I have not created a sub-page yet as I do not have enough details to do that. I need specifics and if it's too simple - it doesn't have enough information. I've read the directions a bunch of times and I still don't get it.
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Hi, Sylvia! I'm sorry for being out for quite some time. Just got back here and will be updating some parts of this training. Hope you found answers about the troubles you've been stuck about. If you still need my help, just let me know.
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I follow everything you did but what happens the second file when your importing your backup. U said to select the "Media" file but said nothing about the "All Content" file. I am so I am learning, please bare with me. thanks. otherwise a great tutorial,very easy to follow. :)

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Thanks Carl for letting me know this, I stand corrected.

When importing the back-up files (.xml) start importing the "All Content" file. Tutorial updated now.

The "Media" file back-up is for emergency purposes only if in case the "All Media" file didn't show the media / pictures on your posts or pages. So, to make sure of that, you can import the "Media" file after importing the "All Content" file.

Thanks for having this tutorial, I'm glad it's becoming useful to my fellow members here.

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Thanks so much for responding and clearing that up for me. I really appreciate it. I have backed up my website to my computer. Thanks again for the tutorial :)

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You're very much welcome! It's my pleasure. Nice meeting you Carl and have a great day!

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Thank you so much for this tutorial. It answered my burning question about how to get tags to show up on my side bar!
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You're welcome Annie. I'm happy this tutorial helped you!
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Great Training, Ces. Definitely helpful for the starters and those who want to revise the training.
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Thank you Sadie for checking it out! Hope it could really help especially the beginners.
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