WIWC WP Course W4 Widgets and Menus

Molecularcode Web Design and Development

Alex Ruaux

http://alexruaux.com

webdesign@alexruaux.com

Beginners WordPress.com Course | West Island Women’s Centre | May 8th 2013

Widgets

WHAT’S A WIDGET

A small tool that add functionality or content to

your site.

Usually in the sidebar (may be in footer).

e.g: calendar, photo stream, countdown, twitter

feed, search box, social media icons, archive of

posts, text and links etc...

WIDGETS IN THE SIDEBAR

text description

search box

calendar

archive dropdown

image

TYPES OF WIDGETS

Widgets that help readers navigate your site

e.g. post archive, tag cloud, categories, search box

Widgets that share content and connect

e.g. follow, like /tweet button

Widgets that pull in content from elsewhere

e.g. flickr stream, twitter feed

Versatile

e.g. text and images

http://learn.wordpress.com/get-configured/#leswidgets

Molecularcode Web Design and Development

Alex Ruaux

http://alexruaux.com

webdesign@alexruaux.com

Beginners WordPress.com Course | West Island Women’s Centre | May 1st 2013

Menus

MENUS

Need at least one menu for navigation

Top, sidebar, footer

MENU

MENU

MENU

MENU

MENUS

Change the order of your pages

Create sub-menus by nesting pages under ‘parent’

pages

Create custom links

*Pages only show in the menu editor once

published, not when a draft

http://learn.wordpress.com/get-published/#lecustommenu