An insight into working with Spots and how to use them in association to the individual sidebars that some themes have set for them.

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WordPress widgets allow you to develop areas into your site where information can be changed easily without affecting the core content. Your site will have been developed with a number of widgetised areas and these areas will accept various – plugins to enhance the usability of the site. This podcast provides a brief introduction to widgets.

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The wordpress users menu item combined with Wangguard plugin.

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There are pages, static content that you do not want to enter into discussion about, or posts. WordPress Posts offer you the ability to write content that is relevant to your site, product, or area of expertise and build a following. They can provide your site with a means to build back-links (further information on back-links to follow) which will add value and subsequently increase your position within Google.

If you are running a food website then you could be posting recipes, nutritional info, methods for preparing, where you source ingredients etc etc. This format applies to many different disciplines and enables you to use your website to generate interest for your users.

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WordPress Menus are obviously crucial and this short podcast gives a brief overview of their use within wordpress.

Menus-Wordpress from Websitu on Vimeo.