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How to Add or Edit a Custom Sidebar in WordPress Using Elementor Plugin_
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Oct 26, 2023
In this instructive video tutorial, you'll gain valuable insights on how to effortlessly add, customize, or edit a custom sidebar in WordPress using the versatile Elementor plugin. Whether you're a WordPress enthusiast or just starting out, this step-by-step guide will empower you to tailor your website's layout and content presentation with ease. Learn to create a unique and personalized user experience without the need for coding skills. Watch this video to unlock the potential of Elementor and enhance your WordPress site's functionality and aesthetics through custom sidebars.
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What's up guys here's Claudio from Visual Moto WordPress themes and in today's video
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gonna learn how to call a sidebar into your pages or posts using Elementor
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website builder free WordPress plugin so let me start explaining what is a
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sidebar okay here is the Wikipedia page can you see this left side of my screen
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with contents right here we have overview themes plugins mobile applications accessibility this is a sidebar present into this content page
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okay so sidebar it's a very useful element for display ads navigations
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search categories other matter information so sidebars are very common in every single site and you may need to call one into one of your pages for
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example okay so let's learn how to do this into your WordPress website using
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elementor plugin but before I can continue please take a moment to hit the subscribe button like this video and share this country with a friend of yours
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international sites favor. So let's get this started. The very first thing to do
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is locate the page where you would like to apply your sidebar. I'm gonna go
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for my WordPress dashboard, left sidebar of menus over my mouse over page and
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click on add new. Right here I'm gonna click into edit with Elementor, but before we can start creating
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our sidebar let me go back a little step and still on the WordPress left sidebar of menus hover my mouse over appearance and click on widgets
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Why we come back right here? Because sidebars on WordPress display widgets
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And what are widgets? Widgets are contents blocks where you can apply to display pieces of content
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For example, imagine that right here, we have all of those contents right here, all of those
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blocks right here or tabs are populated with sidebar widgets or blocks so as you
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can see into this sidebar tab we have a search widget recent posts widget
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recent comments let me delete this repeated one let me also delete this
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one so as you can see we have some options and in the case that I click into
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add new I can apply more ones for example YouTube videos I can just need
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to I just need to enter the video or I'll right here okay so this is a widget
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and I'm gonna populate my sidebars with widgets okay do this with yours before
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before calling it into your page, okay? So, let's go back. Go to Page, Add New
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Just don't forget to hit to the Update button before leaving the page as I did, okay
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So let go to Page Add New Click on Edit with Elementor in order to load the elementor editor Right here we gonna click into this plus button and
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Choose one of the columns layout. I would like this one right here, okay
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But of course you can customize the size of the column in the way that you want, okay
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Or we can move this to the other side of the screen just like this, okay
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Then we're gonna click into this plus button and from the left sidebar of menus
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call it elements we're gonna search for sidebar right here I'm gonna click into
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this widget drag it and drop wherever I want I can place the sidebar right here
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or into this other column right here as we can see on to the Wikipedia page
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sidebars used to take one-third of the page so let's place this into the little
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column right now I'm gonna need to choose the sidebar remember when we was
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on appearance widgets we were populating the the tab called sidebar but on your
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team it may have another name for example the full first sidebar anything
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like this okay so in this visual model team it's called sidebar so I'm gonna
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select this one and as you can see all of the widgets previously added into our
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appearance page are present right here on our page and we have this other
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section to populate with all their content styles okay and start building our website with the sidebar simple easy and effective and it is hope you guys enjoyed this video feel free to use the comment
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Hope you guys enjoyed this video and I see you tomorrow. All the best
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