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Customizing the WordPress Sidebars With Plugins and Widgets

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While our post and category pages will display your posts in the center column in our theme, the sidebars will display on every page. The them defaults to some very useful sidebar content. However, we want to add, remove some, and customize.

Let's look at the basics of changing the content of our sidebars, as well as how easy it is to change the order in which it displays in each sidebar.

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  1. Widgets Are Used to Display Content in the SidebarsSidebars are for widgets and plugins.
  2. The Design Widgets Screen Shows No Widgets in the New ThemeThe design widgets screen.
  3. Our New Theme Didn't Come With a Translator Like the Last OneUploading the itranslate widget.
  4. We Can Now Go to the Plugins Page and Activate Our New OneActivating the iTranslate plugin.
  5. Adding the iTranslate Widget to the Left SidebarPlacing the iTranslate widget into the left sidebar.
  6. Our Translation Box is Now in the Left Sidebar on the SiteFrench translation of DemoTown home page.
  7. We Still Want Our Pages Displayed in the SidebarFlexi page widgets feature list.
  8. We'll Upload the Flexi Page Plugin to Our SiteUploading and activating the plugin.
  9. Let's Get the Page Display Plugin Into Our Left Sidebarflexipage setup options.
  10. Let's Move the Page Display Box to the Top of Our Left SidebarChanging a widget position in the sidebar.
  11. Looking at the Site After Our Left Sidebar ChangesThe current site look of the left sidebar.
  12. Links to Plugins & Widgets Used in Our Example WordPress Real Estate BlogWordPress plugin explanation page.
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