Widgets?

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  cookingwithkatie · Member · Jan 15, 2011 at 4:11 pm

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  What are widgets and what are they used for?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 15, 2011 at 4:45 pm

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  Hi. Here’s your answer :-)

  Widgets

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  fryupress · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 11:31 am

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  Have read the recommended page but still don’t understand how to use widgets

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  airodyssey · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 5:25 pm

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  @fryupress: Which part do you not understand, so we can expand on it?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 16, 2011 at 8:21 pm

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  ~~ airodyssey
  Let me try. :)

  @fryupress
  What most widgets do is allow your readers (1) access to blog content not found on the front page of your blog, or (2) access to related resources found on other sites.

  When you go to this main page in the support documents that I will link to below you can see all widgets available for positioning in the sidebar(s) of your blog for use by your readers . If you click the individual link for any widget a page will open up and tell your what the widget is for as well as how to install it on your blog.

  Main page for widgets and sidebars > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topic/widgets-sidebars/

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  castila · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 12:30 pm

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  Hi everyone, I want to put a new widget in my blog. Is the weather of Granada (our Spanish school is in Granada); I got the HTML code but the problem is that I don’t know where should I paste this code… :S
  I tried in a blog entrance (it only appears as a link) but I want it to be a widget on the right part of the screen…
  Can you please help me?
  THANKS A LOT!!

  This is the code:

  <h2 id=”h_beb7ed1004190afb580792217f86e8ef”>El tiempo</h2>
  El Tiempo en Granada<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://tiempo.meteored.com/wid_loader/beb7ed1004190afb580792217f86e8ef”></script></div>

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  airodyssey · Member · Feb 8, 2011 at 12:58 pm

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  @castila: Hi. Not all code is allowed on WordPress.COM, particularly JavaScript:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  Here’s a list of weather widgets that work on WordPress.COM. Use the code in a text widget:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/widgets-for-wpcom-5-weather/

  In the future, if you want to show us code, it’s best to paste it between backticks (`), otherwise part of it won’t show here.