No Sidebar “About” section widget from WordPress? Twenty Sixteen Theme

  • junkerjr

    (@junkerjr)


    7 months ago

    I am trying to add an “About” section on the sidebar. I’m using the Twenty Sixteen theme. I have added other widgets (Categories) successfully but was unable to find an “About” widget or anything like it. When I tried to create one with “Paragraph” widget, I was unable to change the fonts to match my site and seemed to have very little control in general.

    Haven’t been able to find the answer anywhere. I’ve avoided using the HTML solution because I don’t want to mess with the code too much. WordPress makes widget control much harder than it should be…

    Thanks!

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  • There’s no “About” widget or block. That would be too specific and of limited use.

    Instead:

    1) Use the general “Headline” block for the title… and
    2) Use the general Paragraph block for the description, and (optionally)
    3) Select the two blocks, and join them into one “Group”. This should get rid of the second horizontal black line between the two blocks.

    The “Widgets” use the same default block editor (aka Gutenberg) that ships with WordPress. The blocks I mentioned are the same blocks available when creating/editing a post/page, and you should have the same formatting options in the widgets as you have in the post/page editor… unless you’re using some 3rd-party editor/page builder and not the default editor that comes with WordPress.

    Thread Starter junkerjr

    (@junkerjr)

    Thanks for the reply. But I guess I’m using a WordPress Editor through Bluehost, so it doesn’t seem to have the same capability because I have no control over which font I’m using or anything like that. My site theme has some titles that are sans serif fonts and some that are just serif, so I’m getting some mixed font usage on my sidebar that I don’t seem to have control over.

    If your issue persists, please share your site address so I take a look.

    Standing by.

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