Besides the standard WordPress widgets, the Herald theme provides several additional custom made widgets. Widgets that are added to this theme by the Herald Buddy plugin have a Herald prefix and widgets added by our plugins have a Meks prefix.
To manage widgets, go to Appearance -> Widgets as shown in the image below.
Added by the Herald Buddy plugin:
- Herald Posts – Display your posts in a stylish way, similar to the standard WordPress post widget but with more options provided.
- Herald Adsense – Widget If you are using Google Adsense, you can put your ad-sense script inside this widget. Actually, not only Google Adsense, you can put any JavaScript related advertising service here.
- Herald Video – You can easily display YouTube or Vimeo videos with this widget.
Please note that you need to install the Herald Buddy plugin to enable additional features, such as custom widgets.
Added via Meks plugins:
- Meks Easy Ads Widget – a great solution if you are using image advertisements on your website.
- Meks Smart Social Widget – you can use this widget to display social icons.
- Meks Smart Author Widget – use this widget to display your user/author profile info.
- Meks Easy Instagram Widget – you can use this widget to display your Instagram photos.
- Meks Simple Flickr Widget – display your flicker photo-stream with this widget.
- Meks Smart ThemeForest Widget – you can display your or other users’ ThemeForest items here, with affiliate links as well.