Add widgets in custom menu
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I am using the Intergalactic theme. The theme is amazing and I’m not wishing to part with it, but it does not contain footers[Engineers please do something about this], and I feel handicapped without widgets. Since I have a large menu, can I add the widgets to the menu? How do I do that? For example, can anyone please give me a step-by-step tutorial on adding a search bar to my menu? I have the technical mind span of a four year old, please help!
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These days few themes have either sidebar or footer widgets. Many have slideout widgets and menus. Every theme is uniquely designed and you cannot compel any theme to function in any way that it is not designed to function in. This is how your theme is designed to operate https://wordpress.com/themes/intergalactic/
As I said from the outset, each theme is uniquely designed. The detailed theme description page with setup instructions for the example I will use is here https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/ and the live demo site is here https://twentysixteendemo.wordpress.com/
re: switching themes
Themes are just “skins” on WordPress.COM hosted blogs. You can quickly and easily change themes on any WordPress.COM hosted blog to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/ and no data will be lost or negatively affected by the change. The only time you may have to do a lot of work is if you are changing to a dramatically different theme with different features and/or if you have done any CSS editing.
Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes, Browse themes until you find one you like and click the “activate” or the “preview” link, or type in the name of the theme you want to use when it appears.
The theme customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/ provides a preview function for exactly that purpose ie. so you can view what a theme will appear like prior to changing one.
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an I add the widgets to the menu
No. Widgets can be added only to widgets areas like sidebars and footers that have been specifically designed only into themes that have those areas.
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please give me a step-by-step tutorial on adding a search bar to my menu?
That’s not possible. See here https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/search-widget/
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