Widgets on static pages?
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It looks like I can put widgets in my sidebar(s) but not on pages. My little knowledge of the web suggests that pages other than the blog page are static, so I’m puzzled that I can’t put widgets on static pages too. Is there a major techical obstacle to this, or is it just too much work for too little benefit? — Thanks.
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Some themes do sidplay sidebar widgets of pages and some do not. The choice is usually a Page Template option. Edit the page and look in the far right hand sidebar to locate Templates.
By default, Twenty Ten uses a two-column layout with lots of room for widgets. If you’d like to hide the widgets and focus on the writing for a particular page, just choose the “One column, no sidebar” template. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyten/
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Sorry, I did not express myself clearly. Let’s forget about the sidebar. The body of the page can have media in it. Why can’t it have widgets in it?
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Which widgets do you want to put on a page?
For some widgets, like the links widget for example (provided you don’t update/change it often), one can copy the source code with the hyperlinks and paste it onto a page
A category widget is also doable (again provided you don’t add or change your categories) can also be copied from source code than pasted onto a page. The links to the category pages update, so if you add posts to a cat they will appear on the page. But if you add a new category, then you’ll have to update the page with the same copy/paste manual procedure.
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Thanks! I forgot about editing the HTML. (What a dummy.) The particular widget I was looking at was GoodReads, but there are other problems with that one anyway. WordPress only offers the 3 pre-defined GoodReads shelves, and I need more than that.
So there isn’t some reason why static pages can’t have widgets. We just don’t happen to have a WordPress editor at the moment, to make it easier for the HTML-challenged among us to add widgets to static pages. Thanks again.
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Sorry, I did not express myself clearly. Let’s forget about the sidebar. The body of the page can have media in it. Why can’t it have widgets in it? …
WordPress.com does not allow scraper blogs or automated content blogs and the solution is not to provide the ability to use widgets in posts or pages. http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
So there isn’t some reason why static pages can’t have widgets.
Some themes like Twenty Twelve are not coded to display sidebars on single post pages. Also note t custom design upgrade cannot be used to add a sidebar to pages which do not have one already. That would require hacking of the underling PHP script files, which we cannot do on free hosted WordPress.com blog .
http://en.support.wordpress.com/themes/editing-themes/ -
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Yes, but if it is one of those widgets like the Flickr widgets which use flash, then it’s possible to use gigya code to place on a page or in a text widget. Just a wild guess about the possibilities…
not that this applies to the OP, but Panos has this about Flickr and flash:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/gigya-2-flickr-slideshows/I think is is doubtful, but not having experience with it, if it is flash based then there might be possibility.
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