{"id":84532,"date":"2018-03-30T10:09:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=84532"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:09:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:09:58","slug":"how-to-add-widgets-to-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/how-to-add-widgets-to-wordpress.html","title":{"rendered":"How to add widgets to WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, our support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to  add widgets in WordPress.<\/p>\r\n<p>Widgets let you add different functionality and features to your WordPress site in an easy way, without writing any code.<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li><p>You can access widgets in <strong>Appearance > Widgets<\/strong> section in your WordPress admin area.<\/p><\/li>\r\n<li><p>Widgets that you can add can be found on the left, under the list of <strong>available widgets<\/strong>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"319\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_1.png 661w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_1-150x72.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_1-300x145.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><p>On the right hand, you can see the pre-designated areas for placing your widgets. \r\nThese areas are defined by your theme. They are usually called sidebars or widget areas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"408\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_2.png 726w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_2-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><p>You can simply drag and drop widgets to the needed area.\r\nYou can also click on a widget title from the list of available widgets and  WordPress will show you the list of available areas.<\/p><\/li>\r\n<li><p>Select the area and add the widget.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<a class=\"darkbox\" href=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"423\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_3.png 476w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_3-150x133.png 150w, https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/how_to_add_widgets_wordpress_3-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<li><p>Check the result on your site.<\/p><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n<p>We hope this step-by-step guidance was useful for you. Feel free to check our <a href=\"\/blog\/tag\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> to learn more tweaks on how to manage your WordPress website as a guru of the web design!<\/p>\r\n<p>If you&#8217;re searching for more professional solutions to build a website, have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/wordpress-themes.php\" title=\"Premium WordPress Templates\" target=\"_blank\">WordPress Themes<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello , our support team is ready to present you a new tutorial that shows how to  add widgets in WordPress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":84536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2017,728],"tags":[583,2302],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84532"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84548,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84532\/revisions\/84548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}