User Guide

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Adding widgets

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WHAT ARE WIDGETS?

If you have the TwentyTen theme installed, or in fact most of the popular

themes, down the side of the screen there are small bits of functionality, like the

Recent Posts, Recent Comments and so on.

Well these can be changed to provide lots of different features, and many more

than can be downloaded.

REMOVING WIDGETS

Via the Appearance menu, click on Widgets.

Menu > Appearance > Widgets

You are shown a screen that displays available Widgets

down the left of the screen, and which Widgets are currently

being used down the right of the screen.

In the default WordPress installation, the following Widgets

are in the Primary Widget Area:

You can remove any of the Widgets (for example the Meta Widget) by first

clicking on the down area for the Widget and then clicking Delete:

WordPress 3 User Guide" Chapter 9: Widgets