Changing titles and adding a home link

If your theme has widgets enabled, to change the heading names, go to admin dashboard –> appearance –> widgets

when you add the “categories” and “archive” widgets, and click to edit them, there is a title field, so you can rename it to whatever you want.

If you don’t have widgets enabled, then open sidebar.php of your theme, and you will find the “placer” widgets hard coded. You can rename them there.

You will find something similar to

<?php _e('Categories'); ?>

change to

<?php _e('Something Else'); ?>

To add a page link, either create a new page from within WordPress, and it will appear on the list automatically, or

external link hard coded in sidebar.php

before <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>, add
<li><a href="https://example.com">Your new link</a></li>

That should work.

Okay, the headings thing worked. THANK YOU!!
The other didn’t. ??

I also can’t figure out why the heading “Coming Soon!!!” is clickable almost all the way along the page.

Take a look.
HERE

how to add a link to the 1st page (blue circle).

I’m not sure if that is actually meant to be “page 1”. I believe it should be “Pages”, and links are usually added as you create new ones. (unless hard coded as buddha trance points out).

Have you tried creating another page to see if it shows up as a new link?

I also can’t figure out why the heading “Coming Soon!!!” is clickable almost all the way along the page.

.title h2 a {
color:#9B7302;
display:block;
width:530px
}

The “title h2 a” is the entire width of your content area. (530px) presumably to accommodate long titles when necessary, without forcing them into two lines. (up to 530px).

oops… something’s funky with the page refresh tonight
??