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1. v2006
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   My theme has categories, monthly archives, links, meta on the sidebar.

   What do you recommend placing there? ie feeds, recent posts
   and in what order?

   How do I delete/replace meta..is there any significance in displaying this?

2. petit
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Of course, what you want in your sidebar, is up to you, but since you asked ;)

   If you want to cast light on other bloggers ( blogroll ) or web sites you like, leave the links in. You are encouraging your visitor to leave your place though.
   I'd leave it in being a social bloke ;)

   Monthly archives are not necessary, as your visitors could back upp to older posts by paging in the categories pages.
   If it's a log of your life, your friends would be interested in what happend to you in march 2003 - then leave it in.

   Recent posts could be nice, though that's what's on the main page anyhow. I'd leave it out.

   The meta data section is not at all necessary in my opinion, although I have it for the moment.
   If you're sure all your pages are XHTML standards compliant, and you want to brag about it, show that.
   If you are using the XFN social markup, show that.
   If people are required to log in to comment, show that link.

   How to get rid of the meta links, will depend on the theme you use. To find it, open the sidebar.php in any plain text editor and search for something like this:

   
<h2><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="<?php _e('This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional'); ?>"><?php _e('Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
<?php wp_meta(); ?>
</ul>

   There we are. Just delete or uncomment the parts of meta information you don't want to show.

3. v2006
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thanks for the feedback!
   It was very helpful

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 6 years ago #

   The sky's the limit.
   Images - your local weather - adverts - adsense - etc.

5. petit
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Oops! "uncomment" should read "comment out", sorry about that :/

6. ladydelaluna
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   open a flickr account and use a flickr badge to show your photos (there's a great plugin for that but I don't have time to search for it at the mo'), use the countdown plugin to show a countdown to important dates or holidays, keep the links and link off to sites you like, or better yet have a "things i love/want" category and use amazon associate links to link to them.

   gah... the possibilities are endless. lol

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