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What are WordPress Sidebars

What WordPress sidebars are and how themes use these widget-ready areas to display extra content, navigation, and ads in your site's layout.

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Updated May 14, 2016
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What are WordPress Sidebars

Sidebars in WordPress are referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes and plugins to display information. There are different kinds of sidebars like: Vertical sidebar, Horizontal sidebar etc.. The usage of sidebars varies and depends on the theme design. A lot of WordPress themes support multiple sidebars also known as widget ready areas. Sidebars have an important role in designing the layout of a WordPress website to display content. People use sidebars to show ads as well. So we can say Sidebars are very important part of modern WordPress websites.

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