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Making Your Own Sidebar Widget

Many of you are very confused when it comes to your sidebar widget.

Some widgets are ‘pre-made’ such as ‘Categories’ or ‘Archives’ and you can just drag them, but what if you want your own sidebar widget with a photo and text and links, etc.?

I have created a video that shows how you can use a WordPress post to create a custom sidebar widget and then use the HTML generated from it to drop into a text widget.

Clear as mud? Watch the video!

Video – NextGen Gallery

I am very excited about making this video and I think that a LOT of you have wanted the ability to create galleries of your work on pages or in posts.

This video shows how to import and use the NextGen Gallery plugin for your WordPress site and use it immediately.

This plugin is capable of way more than I am showing, so I recommend that you get to know it better by going to the website provided by the plugin designer, meanwhile, see how easy NextGen gallery is to use right out of the box!

DemoToDemo.com redesign

Andrea Walford’s Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator resource site DemoToDemo.com has undergone a transformation…

DemoToDemo.com is now a WordPress ‘magazine style’ content management system. Not only is this much easier to maintain than the HTML site that I created for her in ’08, the entire thing is actually a blog but the content is delivered to look like a website.

Unlike her old site, she now has an RSS feed and you can click on and subscribe (even by email). That way when she has a new planner to announce, you can get notification of the post via email (or feed) and the ‘post’ itself becomes the latest listing in the ‘Category’ header in a structure not unlike a page.

Andrea had wanted a change and so several months ago, had her banner redesigned by Michelle Laycock along with an entire matching ensemble that Michelle did for her (Twitter, etc.). However, she wasn’t decisive about what she wanted for final layout for the new DemoToDemo.com. Fate took that out of her hands when Frontpage Extensions on her site got corrupted last week and she was no longer able to update her site the way she was used to.

Not wanting to learn a new web authoring software, I brought her to the ‘dark side’ and into WordPress. This site is a bit more sophisticated than the custom theme I created for her at AndreaWalford.com, but just as easy to take care of.

October Specials Updates

Members Login to get the information and direction to update your ‘Specials’ pages. Those of you who are new and this is your first time updating your WordPress site, don’t worry there is a flash video!

For my members also, I have taken the liberty of uploading and re-coding Michelle Layock’s sidebar widgets… she made a fabulous one for the announcement of My Digital Studio and the October ‘Deal of the Week’.

If you are not my customer, click here to go to Laycock Designs (that is a link that pulls her ‘sidebar widgets’ category for Stampin’ Up! demos). Keep that link in your bookmarks!