How to Add Rotating Image to Your WordPress Sidebar/Widget

This week we made a tutorial about adding rotating images to the sidebar of your website. Not only is this is a great way to add an additional visual element, you can also use this feature for ads. These could be ads that link to other websites that you have partnered with or ads to your own products so you can have them rotating and linked within your own website! To learn how to do this in wordpress, check out the video here:

Table of Contents:

  • Installing the plugin: 0:56
  • Adjust settings/add images: 1:27
  • Adding the slider to your sidebar: 2:58

This is the shortcode you need to add the slider: [wp_cycle]

To download the plugin directly, follow this link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cycle/