How to I organize my sidebar widgets?
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New to wordpress and can’t figure out how to organize my widgets. I would like to have the widgets in my sidebar to only show 1 category – not all of them. Where and how to I change it? The blog is in swedish but example – Under RECEPT ( recipes) I only want that – not for example Lifestyle category. What am I doing wrong here? Thank you for taking your time to help me out! /Hannah https://chicfoodieandco.wordpress.com
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Currently, it looks like you’re using the Category widget as shown here:
By default, that widget will always show a list of all of your categories.
If you would like to show only certain categories, you would need to manually set this up. Here are some steps along with a demo:
1. Start on your Menus page here:
https://chicfoodieandco.wordpress.com/wp-admin/nav-menus.php
2. We’re going to create a new menu that will be shown in your sidebar. Use the “Create Menu” at the top (screenshot: http://d.pr/i/11Lcv) to start a new menu. Name it “Sidebar”.
3. Once you have the new Sidebar menu created, click the “Categories” dropdown on the left-hand side. You’ll see a list of all of your categories. Check the ones you want to display and then add them to the menu as shown here:
4. Click “Save Menu”
5. Navigate to your Widgets page here:
https://chicfoodieandco.wordpress.com/wp-admin/widgets.php
6. Instead of using the “Category” widget, switch that out for the “Custom Menu” widget. From the dropdown, select the new “Sidebar” widget we created in step 2. Here’s an example:
Once you save that, you should only see the categories we selected in step 3. Can you give that a shot?
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THANK YOU sooo much ! I didn’t think anyone would care to help me ! So I did what you said and it worked :) If you have the time to answer another one I would be so happy. So as you see I have a side bar menu in swedish called for example : Kategorier ( categories) Senast Inlägg ( last comments) etc. They are marked in a nice font in grey. So what I tried to create from the beginning when I turned to the forum/support was to have each category in the sidebar widget to look like that. Is this possible or not? To have for example Träning ( training) in the grey font and link all my posts to that one. Then have next category RECEPT ( recipes) in the grey font and link all my recipes post to that one. At the moment all categories are now under 1 sidebar menu ( sorry for the a bit confusing explanation!) I hope you understand what my question is. Again Thank you for taking your time and helping me! All the best / Hannah
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What you are describing is possible, but it requires a different approach. Rather than using the category or menu widgets Jeremey described, we’ll use the text widget and the display posts short code. Here’s some background info on each of those tools
https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/You will need a separate widget for each category. I’ll walk you through the first one.
Let’s use Resor as an example.
- Add a text widget and give it the title Resor
- Paste the display posts short-code in the text box. Since we only want to display the posts in this category the short code looks like this.
[display-posts category="resor"] - Then save the widget.
You’ll follow the same process for each category.
Let me know if you have any trouble!
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