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Configuring the sidebar

Configuring the sidebar

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Configuring the sidebar

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- The shop page looks pretty great but we have this sidebar that's just sort of sitting here and isn't doing anything to help us sell more. Let's make this sidebar more useful. I'm quickly going to increase the number of rows per page. And then let's go back and we're going to go to widgets. And under widgets we can customize any of the sidebars. We're going to configure the sidebar called sidebar. And here we can see all the widgets on this page. And as we hover over them, you can see the little blue box surrounding them. So there's search, recent post, recent comments, archives, categories and meta. None of these are useful for helping us find more products and sell more products. So let's get rid of all of these. Search is by far the most useful but it searches everything on your site not just products. So we can do a little bit better with all of these. Now that we've removed all the widgets, WooCommerce is smart and has filled the space but we want to make sure to add new widgets…

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