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Have you ever wondered how you can get one of these cool YouTube subscribe boxes on the
sidebar of your blog? Well it’s easier then you probably think. Hi my name is Stacia Hopkins
and I’m going to show you how you can get one of these boxes on your blog right now.
This first thing that you’ll need to do is log into your back office and the way to
do that is go to your site .com slash wp-admin and then you’ll come to a page that looks
similar to this, the dashboard page and then scroll on down to where you see this plugins
menu here and then you'll select add new. As soon as you get to this page, go ahead
and type in YouTube subscribe widget and then hit search plugins. When it brings up the
list of plugins that match that criteria you’ll want to select this one right here, YouTube
subscribe widget. Click on install now, select OK, and when you come to this page that says
that it has been installed, you want to activate it or else it won’t work. So click activate
plugin and then it will redirect you to the list of all the plugins that you have installed
and if you scroll on down you’ll see it all the way at the bottom. Here it is YouTube
subscribe widget. Now in order to use the widget, we need to go back up and look on
the left hand side and find widgets which is under the appearance menu. Click on widgets
and then, on the widgets page here, you’ll see this box of available widgets. Scroll
down and you’ll see this YouTube bar. Click on that and drag it up into your sidebar and
select where you want to put it. I think I’ll put mine about third right here. Then what
you’ll want to do is get rid of the username that’s there and type in your YouTube username.
For instance mine is staciahopkins, then you can have a title on the box or chose not to
and then you can also select the width and height that you’d like your box to be and
click save. Now that you’ve got the widget installed, come over to your website to take
a look, scroll down, and here it is. So I don’t really like the way that this is looking,
the boxiness of it so I’m actually going to go change the pixel height and width so
that it looks a little more pleasing to me. So we’ll come back over here and on my blog
I think it needs to be about three ten and then I only want the height to be about one
fifty. Save again, refresh, and there we go. This nice little YouTube subscribe box is
on my blog and people can subscribe to my channel simply by clicking this button right
on my blog. So there you have it, this has been Stacia Hopkins, I hope that was super
helpful for you and you can find more video tips and tricks just like this on my blog
at staciahopkins.com.