To add, remove, or edit your sidebar & footer widgets, navigate to Appearance > Widgets.
On the left, you will see a list of the available widgets to choose from.
On the right, you will see a few different widget areas in the theme.
To add a widget to your sidebar, simply drag & drop a widget on the left into the widget area titled "Sidebar".
Once you've dropped a widget into the Sidebar widget area, click on its heading. A drop-down will appear and you can make any necessary adjustments to the widget's settings. From this widget setting drop-down, you can also delete the widget.
To position widgets within the sidebar, drag and drop them above or below each other.
Setting up your Newsletter widget
Theme comes with custom CSS stylings for the "MailChimp for WordPress" plugin. This plugin allows you to insert a newsletter sign-up form in your sidebar & footer area.
When a visitor adds their email via the form, it is saved to your chosen MailChimp mailing list. When you're ready, you can use MailChimp's easy interface to create and send personalized newsletters to your hoards of fans!
If you would like to apply the same stylings to your newsletter form as seen on theme demo site, you can follow the steps below.
1. First, Install and Activate the "MailChimp for WordPress" plugin.
2. Once the plugin is activated, navigate to WordPress Dashboard > MailChimp for WP.
Here, you can copy and paste in your unique MailChimp API Key which will connect your newsletter form to your MailChimp mailing list.
If you don't have a MailChimp API Key yet, you can sign up for a MailChimp account at MailChimp's website.
3. Next, navigate to WordPress Dashboard > MailChimp for WP > Forms.
4. We will want to replace the form HTML code with the following code instead in order to have same looking form as on a demo site. You can simply delete the code within the text box and replace it with the following instead:
<div class="wonderblog-subscribe-form">
<input type="email" class="email-input" name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email address" required />
<input type="submit" value="Subscribe" class="btn" />
</div>
To add your newsletter sign-up form to your site, you can navigate to WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and add the "MailChimp Sign-up Form" widget to your Sidebar or Footer widget area on the right side of the screen.
Setting up your Instagram widget
The footer has a widget area titled "Footer Instagram" where you can add in a widget to display your Instagram images in a full-width section. The widget is simply called "Instagram" and is made available after installing & activating the required theme plugins ( the instagram plugin is called WP Instagram Widget ).
To add the Instagram widget, navigate to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets. On the right, you'll see the theme's different widget areas. One of which is the widget area titled "Footer Instagram".
Drag the "Instagram" widget from the left of this screen into the "Footer Instagram" widget area. To edit the widget's settings, click on the widget's heading once it's been placed in a widget area. A drop-down area will appear.
Please ensure that your Instagram account on Instagram website is set to "Public" and not "Private".