How do I post and change the content of a widget every day?

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  freedomfellowship05 · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 9:06 pm

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  I have 3 or 4 widgets on my side bar. One is called verse of the day; one is quiet time thoughts; and antidote of the day. I can’t find where to even start writing in each widget, and I see no place to change it. I also need to set up my archives for my blog, main topic only not what is in the widgets.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 9:09 pm

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  Go to > Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets
  That is where all widgets are installed and uninstalled.
  For more read https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/

  We do nothing when it comes to archiving posts. Every time we publish a post the software automatically posts it to the Archives and to the dynamic categories and tags pages we assign to the post.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 12, 2015 at 9:11 pm

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  I believe you are confused because the software does the archiving automatically.

  We set the number of posts we want to display here > Dashboard > Settings > Reading
  Blog pages show at most _ posts.

  By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.

  So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.

  You need to be aware that:

  1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/

  2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.

  3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.

  So the process you need to use is:

  1. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  2. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
  3. Add the dynamic category page links into the custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages