{"id":87,"date":"2023-11-29T04:49:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/?p=87"},"modified":"2023-11-29T04:49:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T04:49:23","slug":"how-to-access-and-configure-widget-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/how-to-access-and-configure-widget-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"How to access and configure Widget settings?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To access the widgets for your WordPress website, you have <strong>two different<\/strong> options similar to those in menu settings. They are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Widget Settings from WordPress Admin Dashboard<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Widget Settings from Theme Customizer<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To configure widgets from the WordPress dashboard:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to your WordPress Dashboard, then <strong>Appearance >> Widgets<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard-1024x457.jpg\" alt=\"article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard\n\" class=\"wp-image-91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-dashboard.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Then choose the appropriate blocks for the widget area of your choice.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After you are done with the Widget placement, click on the <strong>Update <\/strong>button at the top right-hand side of your screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">To configure widgets from Theme Customizer:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to WordPress dashboard, then <strong>Appearance >> Customize<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Then navigate yourself towards <strong>Widgets Section<\/strong> where you can see <strong>seven different widget areas <\/strong>to choose from. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose your desired widget area, and <strong>add <\/strong>your widget for that area. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on &#8220;<strong>Publish<\/strong>&#8221; button to save your changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer-1024x562.jpg\" alt=\"article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer\" class=\"wp-image-92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2023\/11\/article-wave-widgets-from-theme-customizer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To access the widgets for your WordPress website, you have two different options similar to those in menu settings. They are: To configure widgets from the WordPress dashboard: To configure widgets from Theme Customizer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[3,4,5,6,35,36],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-widget-settings","tag-documentation","tag-mysterythemes","tag-articlewave","tag-wordpress","tag-widgets","tag-widget-settings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/docs.mysterythemes.com\/articlewave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}