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How do you edit widgets? I’m trying to customize my site a little bit but having all kinds of trouble figuring out how the admin tool and widgets work. All I’ve done so far is install wordpress and activate the theme.
I’d think these are basic requests and there’s probably a page within the admin tool to make the following changes but I can’t seem to find it. I heard about editing the widgets.php file but I can’t seem to locate it. Hard to imagine there isnt some kind of wizard for this.
EXAMPLE… when I go to the admin tool APPEARENCE>>>WIDGETS>>>FOOTER COLUMN 1, it looks blank. But of course on the page this seems to be where the default wordpress install puts the ‘Interesting Links’ category. What am I missing?
http://www.solepurposegroup.org/wordpress/
THESE ARE A COUPLE CHANGES I”M LOOKING TO MAKE
RENAMED – META to YOUR ACCOUNT
Remove Entries RSS
Remove Comments RSS
REMOVE WordPress.org
RENAME INTERESTING LINKS to LINKS
Add link to http://www.solepurposegroup.org
Hi padgettbrian,
The default widgets are just designed to give the footer a bit of weight for quick installs. To replace them, add any widget to the footer column widget areas and those widgets will then be shown.
Regards,
Devin
Understand that, but surely someone has done modifications the footer. There has to be a step by step guide showing how to edit one correctly. Please help
There isn’t a need to directly edit the footer or any specific file. The widgets can be configured on their own after you add them to the widget area in Appearance>Widgets in the wordpress backend.
Eg: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/ which is for wordpress.com so not all the individual widget features are there but the general drag and drop method of adding widgets to widget areas and editing the titles is consistent across all themes.
If you are looking to edit the wordpress core widgets, you would need to have write a simple custom plugin or find one that does what you are looking for.
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