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 the Tag Cloud, Calendars and the Creative Commons license statement.

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

1. Log on to Blogs at Penn State.
2. Click the name of the blog to enter it.
3. Click Templates in the left menu.
4. Click Manage My Widgets in the bottom Plugin Actions section.
   
5. Click the link for First Widget Manager.
   
6. 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.
      
7. Click Save Chages to exit the Widget manager.
8. Click Rebuild Site in the lower part of the left menu to post the changes.
9. Click View Site in the lower left menu to see the changes in the sidebar.