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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:16:58 +0000

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:17:17 +0000

[...] blog’s header December 3, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments In an earlier post, How to customize your blog with widgets, leanpearl asked: “How do I put text widget in my header? I wanna use it for social [...]

By: Romy C

Romy C — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:44:09 +0000

Update: This response is now a separate post titled “How to put a text widget in a blog’s header”. Thanks for the prompt, leanpearl.

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Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:38:46 +0000

[...] a blog’s header December 3, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments In an earlier post, How to customize your blog with widgets, leanpearl asked: “How do I put text widget in my header? I wanna use it for social [...]

By: Romy C

Romy C — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:14:55 +0000

That’s a very interesting question. Unfortunately, I don’t think I have an expert answer to that.

But here are some thoughts and observations:

1. The widgets in a WP blog are dependent on (a) the plugins installed and active in a site, and (b) the structure of the blog theme, ie, whether the theme had been coded to allow widgets in the header, sidebar or footer.

2. As we all know, most WP themes display widgets in the sidebar, and some themes also display widgets in the footer. I have checked the more than 70 themes in WordPress.com, and I have not found a theme with the options you have in mind.

That said, you may wish to check your theme options including its Custom Header, if any.

For example, this theme I am currently using has several options to customize its header. I can insert a standard 468×60 banner to the right of my site name (which obviously I did not do). The banner can be replaced with other displays like SNS icons using HTML, or anything within the TOS of WordPress.com.

In short, the key to customizing your header is to look for a theme that gives you that option – to change the image, to change the color, to change the text or to insert other objects.

Hope this helps.

By: leanpearl

leanpearl — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:17:53 +0000

How do I put text widget in my header? I wanna use it for social networking sites’ icons.

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Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:09:26 +0000

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By: Romy C

Romy C — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:34:50 +0000

@ileane – Thanks for the message, and also for sharing that info about the text widget. I may try that too. Cheers.

By: ileaneb

ileaneb — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:13:21 +0000

Hi Romy, nice to find your blog. There are so many blogs that discuss the options and plug-ins for self-hosted WordPress blogs but not many that I have found for us free WordPress users. This post actually appeared as one of the related posts on my latest post were I also talk about widgets (so that time “possibly related posts” worked The other post listed was not at all related.

You are right, using widgets can totally make a difference in the appearance of a WordPress.com blog. You mention the text widget and I also discovered that you can add music from SoundCloud to the text widget rather than adding SoundCloud to a post. That way you can always have a song on your home page.

Thanks again for the post, I look forward to finding more goodies here.