Using WordPress Widgets to Add Banner Graphics to a Blog

WordPress blogs can be easily customized and enhanced using WordPress widgets and WordPress Plugins. This article identifies the steps required to install free graphic banners using WordPress widgets on a WordPress blog.

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Recently, several friends and visitors asked how I added the graphic banners to my WordPress Blog pages. Here are a few tips to help any interested reader in adding free graphic banners, text boxes or other special function boxes using WordPress widgets.

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Each WordPress theme provides the blogger with a basic format that typically provides areas for Posts, Pages, as well as a few additional features included in the sidebar(s) such as a Calendar, Recent Posts, Archives, etc. These additional features are added as "Widgets" that either includes a "standalone" feature (Calendar, Search, etc.) or are "customizable" usually by adding and a "Text" widget then entering the appropriate text or HTML code. An excerpt from my blog is shown in the following figure that includes examples of how different types of widgets are displayed in the sidebar of my opening page.

As for adding the banners and other widgets to your pages, you need to access the appropriate areas of your Dashboard ("My Dashboard" selection on the top bar of the screen when first logged in).

Once the Dashboard page is open, you should note that there are three sections of menu options running down the left side of the Dashboard window. The top section is labeled "Dashboard" and has sub-headings like Blog Stats & Blog Surfer. The second has sub-headings like Posts, Media, etc. while the third has sections entitled Appearance, Users, etc. (which is where you go to add the banners).

In order to create a text box or banner (in the manner that I did) you have to add a "Text Widget" which is located as a sub-page under the "Appearance" tab. You can access the sub-pages (including widgets) by clicking the drop-down arrow to the right of the word "Appearance" (it's lights-up when you run the cursor over it).

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