Title: Adding Text to Sidebar
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Adding Text to Sidebar

 *  [allover](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allover/)
 * (@allover)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-to-sidebar/)
 * Hello.
    Can anyone tell me how can add some text to my sidebar without breaking
   the layout. I’ve added it in the sidebar.php template but it moves my sidebar
   down.
 * This is what my sidebar looks like:
    `<!-- begin sidebar --> <div id="sidebar"
   >
 *  <?php if (function_exists('wp_theme_switcher')) { ?>
    <div id="themes"> <h3>
   <?php _e('Themes'); ?></h3> <?php wp_theme_switcher(); ?> </div> <?php } ?>
 *  <div id="categories">
    <h3><?php _e('Categories:'); ?></h3>
 * <ul>
    <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&feed=rss'); ?> </ul>
   </div>
 * <div id="blogroll">
    <h3>Links</h3>
 * <ul>
    <?php get_links(-1, ' <li>', '</li> ', ' - '); ?>
 * </ul>
    </div>
 *  <div id="archives">
    <h3><?php _e('Archives:'); ?></h3>
 * <ul>
    <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=1'); ?> </ul> </div
   >
 *  <div id="meta">
    <h3><?php _e('Meta:'); ?></h3>
 * <ul>
    <?php wp_register(); ?>
 * <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
    <li><a href="[http://gmpg.org/xfn/">XFN</a></li&gt](http://gmpg.org/xfn/">XFN</a></li&gt);
   <li><a href="[http://wordpress.org/">">WP</a></li&gt](http://wordpress.org/">">WP</a></li&gt);
   <?php wp_meta(); ?> </ul> </div>
 *  </div>
 * <div class="both"></div>
 * </div>
 * <!-- end sidebar -->
 * I’m trying to add text above the Categories list.

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 *  [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * (@chradil)
 * [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-to-sidebar/#post-405569)
 * you’ll need to add a new div before the categories div

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Christopher J. Hradil](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chradil/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-text-to-sidebar/#post-405569)
 * Status: not resolved

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