Wanted Wordpress Widgets

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

I'm using a free wordpress theme where the complete Home page is widgetised. It's usable. But not exactly to my liking. So I'm looking for a Home Page widget where you can specify a picture, which can be specified by size, as well as above, left, right, below the text, or text is inside the picture and where the text can be specified by font, size, bold/unbold. I imagine this could be just 1 generic widget. Which I could replace my restrictive widgets provided by the theme. I would appreciate if I could also have a Parallax widget. 2 sizes of text on 2 lines, would be a bonus.

I have no idea if this is easy or hard to find or achieve. I imagine it should be quite easy. Free would be best. But any widget plugin "package" which can do this would be considered. It would free up my homepage to better design, which otherwise I've been wholely satisfied with. Lean and mean.

Something like a Widget Generator, if there is such a thing. Might do the job.

On the same subject. Can widgets be modified. How to do this? Or is every one unique and cannot be modified.

Michael Seatory · Sep 27, 2016

This article might help.
http://wpsites.net/wordpress-admin/how-to-add-custom-image-sizes-in-wordpress/

I think widgets are generally known as plugins on wordpress and are generally the easiest option if you are not into coding etc. There may be a slider widget that is capable of what you are looking for in terms of text overlay etc. However Im not very experienced and cannot recommend anything in particular.

I usually search something like best wordpress plugins for 'insert problem' and usually find an easy to use plugin that does what I want.

You might want to consider optimising your images i.e make them as small as possible to help your site load faster. There are also plugins that do this automatically. Probably not neccessary if its just a few pages or so and down to personal preference.

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

I'm actually prefer to get a finished product if at all possible, where all of this would be taken care of. A generator would need to be simple to use. All the one's I've so far seen are overly complex (to me).

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

I foegot to mention. there should also be button with a link to somewhere else on the website.

MoMo.Domains · Sep 27, 2016

Can you an example of what exactly you want to achieve?

There are quite a few slider widgets in wordpress repository but then again each plugin has varying features
Example use of slider widget with just one slide
https://bhumitcreation.com/
If you add more slides those will roll/auto roll and lots of other configurations possible

If you can share an example I may be able to help yo out in searching the plugin database

*Above site is mine but the slider plugin used on site are not developed by or affiliated to me

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

My needs are actually quite simple.

1) I need a widget which can upload a background picture with 3 levels of text. I need to specify the text size and boldness for each line of text. It would be nice to also specify the font and color. But it's non-esscential.

2) I need another widget which can upload a picture where I can specify the position of the picture, left/right/top/bottom with 2 levels of text. I need to specify the text size and boldness for each line. It would be nice to also specify the font and color. But it's non-esscential. It should also have a button with text opposite to the picture where I can control the text size and boldness of the text inside and outside the button.

The number of lines includes the widget title. These are both for the Home page.

It's the text size and boldness which I don't like in the Default widgets which come with my theme.

carob · Sep 27, 2016

Have a look at this:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-widget/

The control of images that you want to achieve in the widget is largely available already in posts and pages, so one way to go about this is to get certain posts or pages to appear in widgets (while not appearing as pages).

carob · Sep 27, 2016

stub said:
It's the text size and boldness which I don't like in the Default widgets which come with my theme.

You can edit that in the theme's style.css file. Or more quickly but less good by just adding styles in the widget itself. Check this out:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-style-wordpress-widgets/

You could also add the background image via the theme's CSS file but that would not be so easy for you to change for each case.

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

carob said:
Have a look at this:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/custom-post-widget/

The control of images that you want to achieve in the widget is largely available already in posts and pages, so one way to go about this is to get certain posts or pages to appear in widgets (while not appearing as pages).

Because I would say I'm a beginner with Wordpress, this already looks too complicated for me. I can imagine me spending a great deal of time understanding what I'm doing, only to find I've screwed something up from not really understanding what I'm doing.

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

carob said:
You can edit that in the theme's style.css file. Or more quickly but less good by just adding styles in the widget itself. Check this out:
https://premium.wpmudev.org/blog/how-to-style-wordpress-widgets/

You could also add the background image via the theme's CSS file but that would not be so easy for you to change for each case.

The first part of your reply is a tutorial. Which looks like it could be adapted to what I would want. But for me it's going to a steep learning curve. I was more kind of hoping someone would say. There is something like what you want in this library of widgets.

I probably know enough about css style sheets to make me potentially dangerous. But would be something I could try. But since I haven't installed my theme as a child theme. Probably, all my work would be overwritten should the theme get upgraded.

So somebody pointing me to an actual widget, would definitely be my preferred choice.

MoMo.Domains · Sep 27, 2016

Which theme are you using?

*edit
Here is the slider plugin library on wordpress

Are you looking for free ones only or paid ones are an option?

carob · Sep 27, 2016

stub said:
Because I would say I'm a beginner with Wordpress, this already looks too complicated for me. I can imagine me spending a great deal of time understanding what I'm doing, only to find I've screwed something up from not really understanding what I'm doing.

I think you're being a bit hard on yourself here. All you need to do is install and try the plugin and in ten minutes you'll see if it works for you, and then you can just uninstall and delete it.

After installing it go to the Content Blocks tab, click Add Content Block, insert text and if desired image from Media library, save. Then go to Widgets admin page, drag the Content Block across to the displayed widgets column and save. Then see how it looks.

I tried it just now - it is better than one I used a while ago.

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

MoMo.Domains said:
Which theme are you using?

*edit
Here is the slider plugin library on wordpress

Are you looking for free ones only or paid ones are an option?

I'm not really looking for a slider. I'd prefer a static picture if possible.

Name Trader · Sep 27, 2016

carob said:
I think you're being a bit hard on yourself here. All you need to do is install and try the plugin and in ten minutes you'll see if it works for you, and then you can just uninstall and delete it.

After installing it go to the Content Blocks tab, click Add Content Block, insert text and if desired image from Media library, save. Then go to Widgets admin page, drag the Content Block across to the displayed widgets column and save. Then see how it looks.

I tried it just now - it is better than one I used a while ago.

I think I should be able to have a go at that. It's late here now. I'll try it tomorrow. Thanks

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