When building your WordPress Blog, you have many options to add widgets to your sidebars. WordPress comes with a variety of default widgets such as Calendar, Recent Posts, Recent Comments and more.

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Monetized Marketing - Creating a
Custom Widget
This is the quick and easy way….
1.Click on Posts, then Add New
2. Now you will create a post with the images and
text that you want to put in your sidebar (insert
images, text, links etc)
3. Click on HTML and copy the HTML code <– this is the secret tip!!

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4. Now you can close the post (don’t actually make it a live post). When you leave the site, it will ask you
if you want to save the post, go ahead and choose “No”
5. Click on Appearance, Widgets, then Text Widgets. Drag the text widget into the sidebar that you wish
for it to appear.
6. Paste the HTML code into the Text widget

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7. Save the widget, now check your blog. You may have to do a little editing, but it should look like the
post you created.
This tip allows you to make a custom sidebar widget … and it’s so quick and easy!