Text widgets are probably what some people would consider as useless or not so cool. Think again! These text widgets might be the ones you could really use more often than not!

The WordPress Widgets plugin has the text widgets there by default. There are other text widgets that are available online. Some of them are even capable of better things liek inserting HTML and PHP. It’s really interesting.

Funky things you could do with the text widget:

• Adding information about you.
  Maybe if you have your blogger code or your geek code, you could put there. Or a brief biography.


• Adding information about your blog.
  Just a little snippet so first time visitors would be able to see what your blog is all about and get their attention.


• Adding a poem.
  If you have a poem that basically says what your life philosophy is, why not add it using the text box widget?


• Instant status reports.
  If you just want quick updates on your sidebar as to your status, you could place them using the text widget. Hmmm. Maybe for example you’re hooked on to watching Iron Chef or playing some game, you could add something like “Currently addicted to (whatever thing or show)” on it. Nifty, right?

There are so many other things you could do with the text widgets. Only you could limit yourself as to how creative you can get on your own blog. If you would like to learn a bit more of the basics, of blogging you could check out some blog tutorials. That way you could decide on what you would do with your own blog and figure out what widgets would be suitable.

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