The SideBar
Basically the sidebar holds widgets that perform a range of different functions.
Text Widget
Many of the functions can be placed in a text widget, and the method for doing that is outlined in this earlier post.
Examples of the things that could be added in a text box include:
- Widgets from other sites, such as the APSense and Networked Blogs widgets on this blog.
- Advertising such as AdSense, and similar services.
- Affiliate and other ads. An image with a link.
- Photos
- Links (eg the RSS feed on this blog).
Links and Blogroll
The process for adding links and editing them is discussed in this post.
Other Widgets:
Other widgets that can be added to the sidebar include:
- Search box, to help readers locate particular search terms in the blog.
- Categories, to show the different categories for posts and provide links to them.
- Tag Cloud. Similar to categories, with links to tags used in posts.
- Comments and Recent Posts. Show excepts from the latest comments and posts.
- Calendar, with links to posts made on highlighted dates.
- Plus others.