Blogs at Penn State Community

Widgets are snippets of code which allow you to add different types of content to the sidebar of your blog. Additional built-in widgets available in the Penn State blogs include Technorati Search, the Tag Cloud, Calendars and the Creative Commons license statement.

If your layout has two sidebars, you need to create and edit a second widget manager for the extra sidebar column. Otherwise, only a few basics sidebar items will be shown in the second column. To remove a second column, go to the Styles page

You can watch the video or read the text how-to below:

Add and Remove Sidebar Widgets

To make these active (or to remove sidebar elements), complete these steps.

1. Log on to http://blogs.psu.edu and enter your blog.
2. Click the Design link on top then select Widget Sets.
   
3. Click the link for First Widget Manager.
   

4. All available able widgets will be displayed.
   1. Drag widgets you do not need to the right hand Available Widget column.
   2. Leave widgets you want to be displayed in the to the left Installed Widgets column. You can drag the order of the items to change the display order.
   3. Click Save Changes to exit the Widget Manager.

      

5. Click the Publish link given.
6. Click the View Site button in the top links to see the changes in the sidebar.