WordPress Widgets and Sidebars on Global Voices
Channel: GV Guides
Date: 2022-05-28

This video explains how Widgets work in WordPress, and how we use them on Global Voices sites, along with demos of some of our custom widget types and some very useful custom WordPress shortcodes.

This video is part of this document on the GV Community Guide: https://community.globalvoices.org/guide/technical-guides/wordpress-widgets-and-sidebars/

00:00 Introduction
00:56 What are widgets and sidebars?
02:23 Editing widgets
05:20 Sidebar widths and responsiveness
07:23 Using Widgets
09:00 Alternating background colors
11:17 Widgets next to the posts list v. above and below
14:08 Text and Custom HTML widgets
16:02 GV Random Users widget
17:45 GV Posts List widget
23:50 GV RSS Posts widget
25:31 Intro to shortcodes and 
27:51 [gv_term_promo] widget
29:38 [gv_post_promo] widget
31:30 Conclusion


Other documents referenced in the video:

WordPress Shortcodes on GV: https://community.globalvoices.org/guide/technical-guides/shortcodes/

Temporary Special Category Guide: https://bit.ly/gv-special-categories-temp-guide

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- Jer Clarke, Tech Lead for Global Voices