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27Jul/100

Adding Google Ads or Other HTML snippets to your WordPress Sidebar

To advertise your affiliates banners or Google ads in your WordPress sidebar is very simple.  First, you will login to your WordPress administration area, then click Appearance in the left side menu.  Next, your going to click on Widgets.  Once you've done that, you simply drag a new TEXT widget to your side bar, click the arrow located on the top right of the widget box, then copy and paste the HTML or Javascript snippet from your advertiser into that box. You don't have to give it a title, but you can if you'd like. Click save to make your changes.

Note: for this to work, you must have a sidebar.php file located in your themes root folder, which most usually do.

Viola, you now have advertising on your sidebar.

19Mar/100

How to change the META title in wordpress

The easiest way to accomplish this, is to login to your Word Press Administration area, then click on Appearance / Widgets. You will now see a widget called Meta. Drag that over to your sidebar. Click on the drop down arrow, and fill out the box that says Title, then hit save. Note, If you use this way you will have to drag in other widgets like recent posts, or categories, etc as you will now be using a dynamic sidebar, not the static sidebar.php located in your /wp-content/themes/default (or whatever the name of your theme is) folder.

If this isn't the way you want to go, you can always modify the static sidebar.php file. First, scroll down until you see Meta, or do a find with your web editor. Next, just change it to whatever you like, save the file, then upload it to your server.

Thats it.