Step 3, set up your sidebar
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.
