Do you want to add an image to a sidebar widget
in WordPress? Well keep watching, in this video I'll show you
four methods you can use to add images
to your sidebar area in WordPress. First thing you
want to do is head over to your WordPress dashboard
and from there we want to go to our Appearance area,
Widgets and there are a few ways you can do it from the widget
area. First one is, find the image widget
so we'll just grab that. I'll left click and drag it
over to my main sidebar area
and from here you can add a title
and add an image. By default
it'll open up all the images that you have on your website
and you can also upload a file from here
if it's not on your website yet. From here you just want to
select the image that you want. Make sure that you have the alt text filled
out and the title and once you're done click
add to widget and now you have an image
for your sidebar. You could also choose to link it to a particular website
or a page on your site if you want. Once you're done
make sure you click save changes
and now you have an image on your sidebar area.
So adding an image like that is quite easy but what if you need to
add an image but also a little bit of text or HTML
information? Well to do that let's head back over
to our widgets area.
For this I'm gonna delete the image that I just added
and now let's look for the text widget
right here so I'm gonna left click and drag that up
to my sidebar area again. Again you can fill out the title,
from here you can add the media,
pick the same one, make sure you have the information filled out
and click insert into post, says post
but we know it's in the widget area, and
once we have the image you can also add
the text that you want to add.
Again make sure you click save changes and
then we can go to our site to see that one in action
and now you see it over here. The third method you can use
is by doing a little bit more of a manual process. So I'm going to
delete this one. Since I already have the image that I want to add
uploaded I'm gonna click on my Media area.
I'm gonna click on the image that I want to add
and I want to get the url of the image
so this is the one I want. You want to make sure that
you right click and copy the whole thing.
Once you have that image location we can
close out of that, go back to our Appearance,
Widgets area and this time we want to add
custom HTML so I'm gonna left click and drag that up
to my sidebar, add a title,
and with this one we want to add specific
code. If you're going to add custom HTML you want to make sure that you
have the code that you need and if we're doing
image we're going to use the image tag which requires
the source and the alt
filled out so once I put that information in there
this is the full URL of where that image is located
and then we've also filled out the alt text
information. That's all you need to do for that.
You want to make sure you click save changes
and we can refresh
and again you see that here.
Now the final method actually doesn't use a widget but
we'll be using a plugin. To do that let's
head over to our Plugins area, we'll click Add New,
and we're searching for Image Widget.
This is the one we want so let's click install now
and with all plugins, once it's installed you'll
also want want to make sure you click activate.
Once it's activated let's head back over to Appearance,
Widgets and we'll find the new widget over here.
We're looking for Image Widget so let's
left click and drag that.
From here we can select an image,
pick the one we're looking for,
and click insert into widget.
Now scrolling down you have the title as
well as if you want the link to
open in a new window or if you want it to stay
on the same window. If you link
to another url
and you can also do the alignment here.
Once you're done with all that go ahead and click save
and we'll see this in action.
So those are four methods that you can use to add an image
to your sidebar widget area in WordPress.
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