WordPress Widget Wizardry

32 Comments Posted by on September 17, 2006

The following posts all deal with widgets:

Working with WordPress Widgets

WordPress blogroll, links widget, categories widget

About pages and widgets for profiles and bios

WordPress: Placing images in text widgets

Perplexing New Features: Multiple Category Widgets and Tagging

Text Links in Posts, Pages and Text Widgets

Adding scroll bars to text widgets

Wordpress.com Beginner Resources

32 Responses to WordPress Widget Wizardry

  1. scribez September 18, 2006 at 4:42 am

    nice Article would be damn useful for the noobs.

  2. timethief September 18, 2006 at 9:57 am

    Just 5 months ago I was a “noob” and I had a very frustrating interlude trying to “master” my widgets. If you ever need a good belly laugh then read this thread from the wordpress support forum searchbox which I think of as the “kill the widgets!” thread http://wordpress.com/forums/topic.php?id=1831&replies=19

  3. davidbdale October 12, 2006 at 4:14 pm

    Nothing I’ve read answers this question for me: why do my posts not show up in Tag Surfer? They DO show up in individual tag lists like Tag:Poetry. Is it because I’ve tried to do without the Categories widget? Trying to solve the problem by adding a category list didn’t help. All ten of my tags apply to every post. When configured, my posts still didn’t appear. I’ve noticed tag lists are propagated under a nonsecure url like http://wordpress.com/tags/poetry
    while tag surfer is organized under
    https://davidbdale.wordpress.com/wp-admin/index.php?page=tag-surfer
    Does that account for the difference?
    Any advice you have would be appreciated.

  4. timethief October 12, 2006 at 5:02 pm

    @david
    It’s my understanding that at wordpress “tags” and “categories” are synonmous terms. It’s also my understanding that unless you use the categories widget your technorati categories/tags will not be recorded on the tag page and therefore will not show up in the tag surfer. I think you should send in a feedback to sysadmin along with the link to the forum thread and to this post on my blog. That way we will both get a definitive answer and you can take the appropriate course of action so your posts are included in the tag surfer.

  5. kidswereus November 28, 2006 at 9:40 am

    thanks for making this tip, i sure learned a lot from it!

  6. timethief November 28, 2006 at 11:24 am

    @kidswereus
    You’re welcome. I’m glad it was useful. Happy blogging!

  7. redneckarts December 4, 2006 at 5:46 pm

    Very useful stuff here for me. thankyou very much. I’m just starting. I’m in Canada too. Take care
    r.

  8. Ana December 9, 2006 at 7:25 am

    Thanks a lot for the article :)

  9. timethief December 9, 2006 at 9:11 am

    You’re very welcome. :)

  10. james December 18, 2006 at 4:14 am

    That makes me so happy to hear!!! Good luck

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  12. icedmocha January 13, 2007 at 7:28 am

    Thanks so much for the information. I believe you have provided the answer to a challenge I’ve had with my blogroll. I’ll give it a try.

  13. timethief January 13, 2007 at 9:01 am

    Thank you for letting me know the article was useful. Happy blogging. :)

  14. middleXeast January 17, 2007 at 12:52 am

    There is something about ignorance that is untrackable, it evades our cognitive scanners, but your article led me right back to it. Thank you.

  15. clandelaney January 25, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t seeing my blogroll. Did some reseach that dropped me here, and voila, problem solved. All this time I was looking for a “blogroll” widget. Nope, it was the “links” widget I wanted. Thanks for the guidance!

  16. timethief January 25, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Reply to middleXeast and dandelaney

    I’m glad to hear you both found your answers in my blog. Happy blogging.

  17. Hanny March 23, 2007 at 6:52 am

    “Regardless of the theme you choose to use to locate the available widgets you click on -> dashboard -> presentation -> sidebar widgets.”

    but why i can’t see the SIDEBAR WIDGETS? submenus of the PRESENTATION are: THEMES, EXTRAS, HEMINGWAY OPTIONS (coz i’m using this theme) and EDIT CSS.

    ps. i’m using macos 9.2 and netscape 7.0.

  18. timethief March 23, 2007 at 8:04 am

    I’m sorry to say the theme you have chosen is unusual. It does not come equipped with sidebar widgets as most other themes do. Your alternatives are situated in the footer of the theme.

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  21. jayfisher April 4, 2007 at 7:59 pm

    Okay, I’m a total newbie and finding this widget stuff confusing. What if I want to have a list on links in my sidebar, with a heading like Categories and Blogroll and then the links listed under it. But as a separate section from Categories and Blogroll. Can I do that? Or is the only way to create a text widget and put the links in there.

  22. timethief April 4, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Hi,
    Provided that you have selected a theme that does have widgets then there are two separate widgets you use to display Categories and Links. One will list the links you enter into your Blogroll – this widget is called “Links” . The other widget is called Categories.

    What’s important is that you understand the relationship between your blogroll entries (links) and categories. Please read the following post to gain that understanding http://bloggersblurt.wordpress.com/2007/01/25/understanding-blogrolls-links-and-categories/

    I hope this helps. :)

  23. jayfisher April 5, 2007 at 12:20 am

    Yes that did help! Thank you.

  24. timethief April 5, 2007 at 9:14 pm

    You’re most welcome. :)

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  26. 100percentkelly May 2, 2007 at 9:34 pm

    This is very helpful as I am a newbie. Anyway, I am wondering how blogs (like yours) can have a separate widget/links to other bloggers’ site? I am hoping that I could do this too as well as “categorize” my links, i.e., a. links to favorite blogsites, b. links to other sites, and so on…

    Is this possible?

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  29. sandeshr May 30, 2007 at 12:07 am

    Hi Guys,
    I am trying to put following code in my text widget . However following lines keep changing when I click on save changes.

  30. timethief May 30, 2007 at 10:55 am

    I’m sorry but I can’t help you with this. Please post to the forum and get help there.

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