WId­gets are tools that you can drag and drop into a side­bar or foot­er. Most wid­gets are designed to per­form a spe­cif­ic task, such as list recent posts or dis­play a calendar.

Formatting Text, Placing Images

A Text wid­get allows you to add text, images, video, any con­tent into a side­bar. The down side is that you have use HTML to for­mat the text or embed the image/video

Black Stu­dio TinyM­CE is a text wid­get that has the entire set of text for­mat­ting and media inser­tion tools that the reg­u­lar post and page edi­tors use.