Step 3, set up your sidebar
March 21, 2007
The sidebar is a narrow column that lets your readers navigate your blog/website. Some themes have two columns, some allow you to change the color, header, and whether the column is on the right or left.
There are three tabs under Presentation: Themes, [Your Theme], Sidebar Widgets.
- [Your Theme] will let you select things like the color scheme, number of columns, column position. Not all themes give you these options.
- Sidebar Widgets if your theme doesn’t show this tab, you can’t change the sidebar, and I would advise you to choose another theme.
- As basics, you probably want to add recent posts, links (or blogroll), and categories.
- Consider adding Pages (some themes will include these along the top header), and Meta (which you can rename).
- If you can add them, text boxes are great for showing upcoming events.
Here is a link to some other great things you can do with Sidebars.
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February 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
thank you for the directions.I’m trying it out bit by bit to prepare to use the blog as class supplement. Will read about ‘tips’ more and then ask.
February 7th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
added flickr but the pictures that i want are not displayed, rather have to click ‘more’ to view. can we change the 3 that automatically came?
February 7th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
You might want to check this out: http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/tag/widgets/
You might want to change how the photos are in flickr, so that the ones you want are in a album, and then you get the RSS for that album?