Quick Blogging Guide: Theme Widgets and Sidebars
Most blog theme designs come with widgets that a blogger can use to add custom contents on a blog, notably on the blog’s sidebars. A sidebar is that “narrow” column of a blog, that are either placed on the left side or at the right side.
Depending on the theme’s over-all design, a theme can have a single sidebar and is called a 2-column themes (the layout of this site, Bloggista.net is based on a 2-column theme where the sidebar is placed on the right).
Dual sidebar themes have 3-columns where the sidebars are placed both on the left and right or side-by-side, more popular choice is to place the widgets on the right side (Bloggista.com is an example of a 3-column theme blog).
Some themes could have 4 or more sidebars (check out Shopping.bloggista.com). However, there are also blog themes that do not have widgets, and the layout is already fixed (check out Consulting.bloggista.com to see an example of a blog theme with no widgets).
What are the uses of Widgets?
Widgets are used to add customized content on a blog, in the sidebars. In Wordpress blogs, several widgets are available that make Wordpress a popular blogging platform among bloggers. To use the Widgets, go to YourBlog’s Dashboard > Presentation > Themes | Widgets.
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