By : Nidhi Gupta

Widgets are things you can put in your WordPress blog’s sidebar without knowing how to edit a web page. In easier terms we can say, Widgets are those parts which are broken down the sidebars in themes into discrete blocks of goodness, and created an interface for user to add, delete, and rearrange them by simply dragging and dropping. It’s as easy as falling off a blog.

“Widgets” is buzzword chosen for this sidebar-chopping plug-in. They could have been called Gadgets or Gizmos or Wizbangs or Whatevers. On the surface, they are just things you can use to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML. Way down deep, they may be something entirely more significant.

The widgets are basic right now, things like search, categories, pages, etc, but the process of going on for anyone to create their own widgets. (It’s as writing a single function and wrapping it in a WordPress plugin.)

By installing the Widgets plugin by Automattic and using a widget-ready theme, you can bring the popular customization feature from WordPress.com to your very own.

Not all widgets are available on blogs hosted by WordPress.com. You can install any widget you like on your own blog WordPress version 2.2 includes the Widgets feature. There is no need to download the plugin if you are running WordPress 2.2 or later.

At last, Widgets are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. One can arite its own widgets. Writing a WordPress Widget is as easy as writing a plugin.

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