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Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
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Finding and Installing Themes
1
Index

Installing widgets


Now that we have studied how to install WordPress plugins and what plugins can do for you, let's have a look at widgets. A widget does the same thing as a plugin—It adds more functionality to your blog.

When you install a plugin, it automatically adds a new functionality to your WordPress blog. Sometimes, you have to edit one of your files and paste a line of code to make the plugin functional.

On the other hand, widgets have to be dragged to a widget-ready zone, which is a part of your blog that is set up to display widgets. Most recent themes feature at least one widget-ready zone, often located in the sidebar.

The main difference between plugins and widgets is that a widget can be placed on any widget-ready zone on your blog and can be ordered directly from your WordPress dashboard.

Getting ready

Before installing any widget, you must first verify that your theme is widget ready. As I said in the previous section, most recent themes feature a widget-ready zone in the sidebar...

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