Do you want to create your own custom
widget in WordPress? Well keep watching
in this video I'll walk you through how
you can create your very own widget for
your WordPress website. There are two
ways that you can create a custom widget
for your WordPress website.
One is you can create a specific plugin
that you can use for your website the
other way is to simply add the code that
you need to your functions file for your
theme. Now if you add it for your theme
any time you switch themes then your
widget will no longer be available if
you switch themes so keep that in mind
when you choose this. As with any changes
that you make to your site you'll want
to create a backup of your site before
you get started I'll be copying and
adding all of this custom code to my
functions.php for my theme. What
this is is it'll add a greetings widget
to the sidebar. Since I'll be making
changes to my functions.php for my
theme I want to open up an FTP client, I
use FileZilla.
You can get your login credentials from
your hosting provider if you don't know
them but when you first log in you see
the WP folders here you'll want to go
into the wp-content, go into the themes
folder, and you need to know which theme
you're using. I'm using the 2017 theme,
scroll down until we find the functions.php
I'm going to right click and
download that locally and once that's
downloaded I'll open it in a text editor.
I have notepad plus plus that I'm using
and this is all the functions currently
in the theme I don't want to mess with
any of those but I do want to scroll all
the way down to the bottom. So on the new
line going to right click and paste. Let
me save it back to our FTP client where
I can right click on it and upload it. I
need to overwrite what's on there and
once that's done we can head back over
to our WordPress dashboard, go over to my
appearance, widgets area. Scrolling down
because we named it WPBeginner widget I
can grab the new widget and bring it
over to my sidebar and then we can go
take a look and see what it looks like
on our site. Very easy and simple
customized widgets that I've created for
my website. Did you learn something from
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