Hello and welcome to this tutorial! um in this tutorial i will be showing you how to add widgets
to your footer. There's many ways that uh you can do this um i'm going to show you how to do this
strictly in the widgets areas so first we're going to go to appearance and then widgets. So it's
important to note that WordPress is originally blog software obviously people use it to create
full big websites whether it's you know e-commerce or just informational or whatever the case may be .
But these widgets that you see here in this available widgets area most of these are
um specific to a blog and because we have WooCommerce installed. We have widgets that
are specific to WooCommerce but there are a lot of widgets that can be used
um whether you have a sidebar for your blog or just in like your footer or your header areas .
So um i've used a plugin that i've installed called Black Studio Tiny MCE and what this does
is it allows for a visual editor to be added to your widget areas. So um that's what this is but
if you do not want to use a visual editor and you just kind of want to see uh what the other
uh widgets available can you know allow you to do . um just know like there's um you know widgets like
an image um that will display an image um you can use like recent posts that's pretty popular
in um the footer area you can also set up a text widget there's just many different widgets that
you can use but i'll show you what this visual editor one can do so you can either click and
check off the widget area you want to add this particular widget to and so we're going to do that
but also i'm just gonna close that but also you can drag and drop these into the area you want
them to be in so just know that as well so i'm just gonna to remove it i can just throw it over
to the left and it's gone um so we're just going to focus on this particular one so for this visual
editor widget which again is powered by the black studio tiny mce widget this allows me to just
pretty much have free ring um you know on whatever i want to add here i can add media i can you know
type in text it doesn't have to be one specific thing this allows you to do a lot so um i'm going
to uncheck this automatically add paragraphs because i'm not going to add text in this area
but i am going to add an image so i'm just going to click add media i'm going to select this logo
right here i'm going to keep it to medium since it is kind of a large image as you can see
and i'm just going to insert it into the post um but in this case of course it's a widget so um
that's pretty much all that i you know that i want for this particular one so i'm just gonna hit save
and now i'm gonna just close that i'm gonna use a different widget i'm gonna use text and i'm gonna
put it in this particular area so um for this this is um kind of like that visual editor that
you see here it's just a more condensed version because this is um specific to text and you know
things like that this is more if you just want to do a lot of things um and you just want like that
that freedom that you get when you're editing like a page or a post
um so that's pretty much all that is um so for this i'm just going to type some text um
all right and so just fold it and we'll italicize it as well so i'll go ahead and hit save
and that's it um so now we're gonna check our site
and as you can see it has added two of my widgets right here so this one on the left
and then this one on the right so it's important to note that different themes different things
so some themes might allow you to select the footer layout and you'll have more
footer areas to add widgets to it really just depends on your theme options um
this tutorial focuses on the 2020 theme which is a free theme through wordpress.org so that's pretty
much it another way that you can customize your widgets is by going to customize under appearance
so just show you what that looks like all right so once we're in this screen we can go to widgets and
then we can select the widget area and um we can add a widget if we want to and it gives us this
list of uh available widgets we can also search through them if we don't want to scroll um and
that's pretty much it but if i didn't want to do that i can just expand this and you know edit
as needed and again that shows right here which it's kind of hidden um but uh say i didn't want
this anymore i can just remove it and as you can see it just moved that over um so i can you know
add a different one in here if i wanted to i can just do an image and then i can just add my
image directly and we'll set that to none all right and then as you can see it adds it back
so and then i can hit publish and i'm all set so i can click this back button to get back to the
widgets area and then i can focus on this one and i can expand it i can add more text if i want to
all right so that's what it would look like um if i wanted to you know type out a bunch of text
and again i can just say publish and it's all set so i'm just going to hit back on this and back on
this and then i can just x out and it'll take me back to the dashboard so um that concludes our
tutorial um if you're looking for more tutorials like this you can search through our support
center we have a lot of um different articles on wordpress and how to set up certain things um
also if you have questions about um setting up certain things such as like your footer um and you
just need some quick help you can always reach out to our support department they are available 24 7
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