{"id":185095,"date":"2015-10-06T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T09:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/?p=185095"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:05:48","slug":"wordpress-for-newbies-2-what-are-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wordpress-for-newbies-2-what-are-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress for Newbies #2: What are Widgets?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the second video of our little <a href=\"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/tag\/wordpress-for-newbies\/\"><strong>&#8220;WordPress for Newbies&#8221; series<\/strong><\/a>, I will explain what <em>widgets and widget areas in WordPress<\/em> are. Since there are so many different widget options and the widget areas are different in every theme, I think it is quite difficult to understand the concept of widgets at the beginning of learning WordPress. I hope my little video screencast is helpful to get you started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJaknaF3OMg\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qJaknaF3OMg<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Your Feedback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have any questions regarding widgets and widget areas in WordPress? Or do you have any further advice or helpful tips to share for WordPress beginners? I would love to hear from you, just write me a comment below!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second video of our little &#8220;WordPress for Newbies&#8221; series, I will explain what widgets and widget areas in WordPress are. Since there are so many different widget options and the widget areas are different in every theme, I think it is quite difficult to understand the concept of widgets at the beginning of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":185093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[910,1247,1276],"tags":[1113,1405,1122,1115,1203,170,1173,1052,1205],"class_list":["post-185095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wordpress-en","category-wordpress-newbies","category-wordpress-tips","tag-beginners","tag-blogging-en","tag-newbies","tag-tutorial-en","tag-video-en","tag-video","tag-wordpress","tag-wordpress-en-2","tag-wordpress-for-newbies"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phlOHV-M9p","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/what-are-widgets.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314625,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185095\/revisions\/314625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmastudio.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}