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Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects

You're reading from   Learn to Create WordPress Themes by Building 5 Projects Master the fundamentals of WordPress theme development and create attractive WordPress themes from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286641
Length 458 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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The sidebar widget setup

In the last section, we made a custom widget plugin for our showcase area. We'll now implement the sidebar.

We've already done half the work. If we look at functions.php, we already have registered our sidebar area.

So what we need to do now is go to index.php and go down to where we have our sidebar. Before I get rid of this, let's make sure that we create our widgets.

So we already have the Categories one; we don't have to worry too much about that. But let's create the sidebar heading:

OK, so if we go to our backend, we have Categories, we can bring that over to the sidebar at the right, enter the title as Categories and save that. Then we also want the custom text present at the bottom-left of the window; we'll put that right under Categories. Paste in our heading, Sidebar heading, and then our text and the button from...

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