Widgets let you add extra content in specific areas of your WordPress site, such as the sidebar and footer. Widgets make it easy to customize your site with menus, text or other content that will be displayed on every page.

In this course, Envato Tuts+ instructor Rachel McCollin will show you how to use this really useful feature of WordPress. You'll learn how to add widgets to the different parts of your site, how to configure and delete them, and also how to use a plugin for rich text editing in your widgets.

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