How to add more widgets than the theme allows?

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    clarkster68 · Member ·

    I’m frustrated that I can’t add as many widgets as I want unless I choose a theme that allows a large number of widgets. Is there a way to get around this? Or am I just missing something? That’s one thing Blogspot has over WordPress, I can add as many gadgets as I like and put them wherever I want despite whatever layout I’m using.

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    timethief · Member ·

    I do not know what your problem is. The number of widgets you choose to place in your sidebar is up to you.
    This is the link to the main page in support documentation fro widgets and sidebars. You can use the links on that page to click into the information and instructions for installing individual widgets . http://en.support.wordpress.com/topic/widgets-sidebars/
    This is a the link to the restricted codes which the software will strip out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform . http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

    If you are very specific about which widget you wish to use and you tell us where it’s located on the interent, or provide the code there are workarounds that can be used for some Flash widgets.

    1. Placing an excessive number in the sidebar causes the front page to grow longer and compels readers to scroll which results in click outs.
    2. The longer your front page is and the more “tat” you have in your sidebar the longer it takes for the page to load and page loading time is a search engine ranking factor.
    3. Too many widgets and particularly those that are colorful and animated can destroy the design of your theme and make your blog look amateurish.
    4. Any amount of colorful, animated, decorative “tat” in your sidebar is eye catching. In other words they draw the readers’ eyes and attention of the readers’ mind from reading your blog content.
    5. Widgets generally accomplish one or more of the following things:</div>

    • improve the functionality of a site by providing reader accessibility to deeper blog content that is not located on the front page;
    • act as leaders for e-commerce or other transactions;
    • promote and lead traffic to the site serving the widget;
    • redirect readers to high quality sources of relevant information found in related authoritative blogs in the same niche.

    6. Yes, Blogger (blogspot) blogs are distinctive. The the vast and overwhelming majority of spam blogs ie. splogs filled with RSS scraped content, and plagiarized content, sporting sidebars full of widgets and gadgets, and covered with get rich quick advertising are found on the blogpsot subdomain, as are blogs with broken code, deprecated code, and an amateurish appearance.

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    There are themes here that have multiple sidebars. Enterprise has one on the side and three at the bottom. Paperpunch has a sidebar and four widget areas at the bottom. Coraline had 7 widget areas.

    Fusion, Pilcrow, zBench also have multiple sidebar/footer bar areas.

    And as far as a limit on the number of widgets, there really isn’t any. I’ve seen blogs with probably 100 widgets (which of course means it isn’t a blog, but a widget display case.

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