Adding pictures to your wordpress sidebar
October 30, 2011 in Design
In creating this site I encountered one very frustrating, seemingly simple, problem. How do you add pictures into your sidebar that link to your pages or categories?
I soon realized that this question has been asked before by countless wordpress users. A few individuals had answers and they vary in levels of difficulty.
The simple solution:
- create the image you want in exact dimensions and save. (I used relatively arbitrary size that was visually appearing: 183×133 px)
- start a new post
- insert your photo or list of photos in the order you desire. be sure to enter the links for those photos
- go to the html version of your post and highlight the html code
- copy and paste that code into the blank text widget within your sidebar. viola!