Changing the content of your sidebar

Your OM4 WordPress website allows you to change to contents of your sidebar. You can easily change sidebar content, for example, to promote a new campaign or support a special offer.

Changing The Contents of Your Sidebar

You control what appears in your sidebar by adding, removing or re-ordering Sidebar Widgets.

Go Dashboard, Appearance, Widgets to manage them.

To change the order widgets in your sidebar, click and drag them to a new location.

To remove widgets, drag them from your sidebar back into the Available Widgets section.

To add new widgets, drag them from Available Widgets into your sidebar.

Some sidebar widgets belong with plugins, and are only available when the plugin is activated. For example, to see the Testimonials widget in the Available Widgets, you first have to make sure the WP-Testimonials plugin is activated. You do this using your Dashboard, Plugins option.

Using standard Sidebar Widgets

WordPress comes with a number of standard widgets you may find useful.

The Recent Posts widget displays a set of links to your recent posts.

The widget configuration options (if a widget has these, it will show small icon to the right of the widget name) allows you to set a title and control how many posts are displayed (say 5 or 8).

The Recent Comments widget goes well with Recent Posts, and displays the most recent comments on your site.

The Categories widget displays a link to the Categories used by your blog posts.

Using plugin specific widgets

A number of plugins add widgets to your Available Widgets bar. A selection of third party plugins, as well as custom OM4 plugins, that contribute to your online marketing activities have been pre-installed on your OM4 site.

The Testimonials widget displays a randomly selected client testimonial from your testimonial database.

Here is a more detailed article about using the Testimonials plugins.

Using Text Widgets

Text Widgets let you include images, text, links and forms in your sidebar, and using them is covered in a more advanced article.