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Wondering About Widgets? How to Use Them in Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

It may be a funny sounding word to many beginning WordPress users, but widgets can be—and should be—a vital component to any WordPress design. What exactly are widgets? In simple terms to the uninitiated, widgets are small blocks that provide very specific functions on your WordPress page. Then find the link below it to delete.

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The Right Direction: Free Plugins to Put your Website on the Map

Byte Technology

Indeed, so much of what we do online these days depends on our physical location, with a host of apps that can make recommendations and programs that sync seamlessly with map services. The aforementioned Google Maps is certainly a leader in the online map market—you can embed a code that you paste into your WordPress posts.

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New and Notable: What’s Coming With WordPress 4.9

Byte Technology

From a shiny new Events widget to tools that allow the display of images in sidebars without the use of a plugin or code, a great text editor for formatting posts to a video tool that lets people upload their videos (also to a sidebar area) from providers such as YouTube and Vimeo, the update was much heralded.

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The Picture Show: The Best WordPress Themes for Video Ventures

Byte Technology

Designed to handle full-screen background or popup videos, it also includes a convenient gallery module as well as widgets to display portfolio showcases. Users can rate videos easily (via the PostRatings plugin), the homepage is widget-rich and friendly and it melds beautifully with social media through customizable buttons.

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Bright Idea: Promoting Your Event on Social Media Will Help You Fill Your Seats Copy

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There is also a helpful map widget included on the event form which gives the attendee GPS directions from their current location to the event’s address. Junior Achievement of Western PA inserted a graphic of a map which shows the location of their event embedded on their registration page.

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Bright Idea: Promoting Your Event on Social Media Will Help You Fill Your Seats

Qgiv

There is also a helpful map widget included on the event form which gives the attendee GPS directions from their current location to the event’s address. Junior Achievement of Western PA inserted a graphic of a map which shows the location of their event embedded on their registration page.

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A Nonprofit Version of Widget Box?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I saw the words "nonprofit widget," I had a senior moment. I remembered that almost a year ago I was working on screencast about widgets for nonprofits to build community and had set up a wikispace called nonprofit widgets. I think that slapping up a widget and not having strategy doesn't work.

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