Written by This is a question I used to ask myself a lot when I first started using WordPress.org and one where I assumed there would be a Plugin to answer it but unfortunately there is not. Well certainly not at the time of writing this article. So here is how to make text widgets more exciting.
Why
Well your probably reading this because you want to make the font that you write in a standard text widget a bit more exciting because at the moment unless you know HTML code its going to look pretty boring. It will always have the same font size, the same colour , the same font style etc unless of course you do something about it.
Here Is What To Do
First thing you want to do is install the plugin “Deans FCKEditor”. This Plugin once installed will allow you to write with so much more creativity when writng new posts or adding to your pages. It will over ride the standard WP text editor which is fairly basic and boring and allow you to do all sorts of new stuff like font variations such as colour, size and style, just what we want if were to jazz up our text widgets. CLICK HERE to understand and install Plugins.
Once you have installed the plugin you now go to add new post as you would do normally. Even though were designing content for a text widget we go to add posts first. You will now see that the standard editor has been replaced by a more dynamic one with much more control.
In this post you are going to write or place images etc that you wish to have seen in your text widget. You are basicly writing your text widget within a post.
When all is completed you simply click on the source button in the editors control panel which is found to the very top left. You will now be presented with the HTML code for that post.
Copy this code ( has the light bulb just come on) and then go to widgets and click on your text widget. Paste in the code and save widget.
And et voila, you have just successfully written and uploaded a text widget that looks way better than anything possible before without you having to know any sort of computer HTML code. Simple, was it not.
Tip
If it does not look exactly how you want it then simply copy and paste the code back onto a post (remember to be in HTML mode first) and then click source to revert back from HTML code to normal mode where you can now play around with it until it is right. Of course remembering to always to copy it in its HTML form ready to be pasted into the text widget.
Congratulations, You now know how to make text widgets more exciting.
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