Title: Sidebar customization
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar customization

 *  [linkman2004](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linkman2004/)
 * (@linkman2004)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/)
 * Hey all. Well I finally got wordpress installed on my hosting but now I’m working
   on customizing the look. I was wondering if there is anyway to make the name 
   of a section a picture. Like say I want to change the text “Meta” to a picture
   instead, that way I have a picture that says “Meta”. That way I have my picture
   above all the links in the “Meta” section. If that’s confusing I’ll try to explain
   a little better. See ya.

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 *  [devilmaycry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devilmaycry/)
 * (@devilmaycry)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/#post-359428)
 * It’s certainly possible, although I’m unsure if you can actually do this through
   the Admin CP. The only way I know how to do this is by manually adding the HTML
   code into your sidebar.php. Something like this:
 * [li]
    [img src=”domain.com/category-header.jpeg” /] [ul] [li]Content goes here…[/
   li] [/ul] [/li]
 * (Obviously replace the “[ ]” with the appropriate “< >” characters).
 * But if you’re familar with HTML then you shouldn’t have a problem.
 *  [digidiva-kathy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digidiva-kathy/)
 * (@digidiva-kathy)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/#post-359465)
 * Would this put the same image over every link category? Any way to make an image
   for each different category?
 *  [saucypony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saucypony/)
 * (@saucypony)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/#post-359730)
 * I’m trying to figure this out as well. It’s not too difficult to modify the sidebar.
   php file and add images above the ‘meta’ and ‘archives’ categories, but when 
   you add some custom categories, the format of the sidebar.php code changes and
   calls <?php get_links_list(); ?>, which leaves nowhere to place the image links.
   God that’s confusing, but I hope someone can help us out!
 *  [Bodhipaksa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/haecceity/)
 * (@haecceity)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/#post-359747)
 * I can’t imagine this would be hard. On one of my sites I changed all the headings,
   so instead of “pages” it says “Pages about…” and instead of “Categories” it says“
   Posts arranged by category”.
 * Just look (mainly towards the bottom) in sidebar.php. The stuff you want to change
   is between `<h2> </h2>` tags. You’ll need to replace those headings (including
   the tags themselves) with the code for the images. Remember to include alt attributes
   for people with visual handicaps.
 *  [saucypony](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saucypony/)
 * (@saucypony)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-customization/#post-359919)
 * Whew, it’s pretty tough to search this forum sometimes haha… After quite a bit
   of searching I found that each of the categories have styles associated with 
   them, so it’s not terribly difficult css to add in an image. Here’s the post 
   I found.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/41991?replies=2](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/41991?replies=2)

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