Customising the sidebar (Widgets).
- The blog website, there will be a sidebar (on the right with the Twenty Eleven theme) with various information such as categories, archives, and your Log-in link. You can change this and how it looks.
- In the Dashboard tab, the column down the left-side of the page is the main menu for the Dashboard.
- Click on ‘Appearance’, and then on ‘Widgets’.
- You will find a wide range of possible widgets you can use, such as for adding text, links, images (eg. logos), subscriptions, tag clouds, and so on. Each has its own options.
- Choose a widget that you like, click-and-hold-down the mouse button on it and drag it to the position on the right where you want it to show up in your sidebar.
- Once it is in the sidebar, you can edit its options.
- To remove it, just drag it back to the main box of widgets.
Inserting a YouTube video within a blog post.
- Open a new tab or window in your browser.
- Use YouTube and find a video you like.
- Click on it to go to it’s player page where you can watch the video.
- Then click on ‘Share’ a bit below the video.
- This will give you a web address (‘URL’) that you can copy. Highlight this text (if it isn’t already) and then right click on this text and select ‘Copy’.
- Find your post on the dashboard ready to edit it (see the instructions for ‘Updating a Post’). NOTE: you can also click on ‘edit’ on the website page itself to open the ‘Edit Post’ screen.
- Place the cursor where you want the video to appear.
- Click on the ‘Add Media’ button above the main text of the post.
- On the next screen box, click on ‘Insert from URL’ at the left.
- Place the pointer over the box where it says ‘http://’ and right-click, then choose paste.
- Click on ‘Insert into Post’.
- Click ‘update’, and then check the blog website to see if its published.
