Got my first blog up now what help would like to customize wordpress help

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Originally Posted by alc

No problem will ask you and others here, here goes I just made my first wordpress blog was easy to install with my cpanel just click one or two times and thats it, I am stuck I want to change the left side column need to add links and banners promo stuff to my vendors I went to presentation then edit theme and see individual pages there with there code I think php now what can I just add the html in there I tried but did not work and what about plugins do I just go to plugins activate the one I want then copy its code and add it there?

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Please advise thanks.

first thing you need to do is go to the FTP location of those files, which varies from user to user, but after you get into the wordpress directory is located at

/wp-content/themes/YOURTHEMENAME

CHMOD all those files to 777

now, go into your wordpress control panel and to PRESENTATION>THEME EDITOR

now go to Sidebar

there you will find all your sidebars

now look for things like

those are your sidebar contents, and each one will be about the same and a good theme will have them seperated for you, like this:

YOU WANT TO PUT YOUR CONTENT HERE, before or after the sidebar item

make sure it is the right sized banner or item, because if not, it will fuck up the formatting of the blog