widgets on pages or in posts

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  eileencogan · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 4:16 pm

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  I really really want to be able to insert some widgets on pages or in posts instead of having a kazillion widgets in my sidebars.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 4:27 pm

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  Widgets cannot be placed in posts or pages, only in the sidebars.

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  eileencogan · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 4:41 pm

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  why?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Nov 8, 2009 at 4:50 pm

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  Because it isn’t designed that way. Widgets were designed to go in the sidebars.

  There is the archives shortcode that can be used to put the archives on a page instead of in a sidebar: http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/ .

  And there are some themes here that have links and archives page templates: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/archives-and-links-templates/ .

  You can create pages with anything you want in them although they will not dynamically update. You will have to manually update them as required.