Title: Sidebard Clutter ?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebard Clutter ?

 *  [aliferste](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aliferste/)
 * (@aliferste)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/)
 * Hiya,
 * Would you mind checking out
    [http://theriverkelvin.co.uk/blog/](http://theriverkelvin.co.uk/blog/)
   and telling me if you think my sidebar is too cluttered ?
 * I am thinking that I should maybe put my blogroll on a seperate dedicated page-
   is there a way to do this simply…a plugin maybe ?
 * Anyway, any advice would be nice 🙂

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408040)
 * You should warn people that you have a mile long site.
    I didn’t see the sidebar
   because I didn’t wait for it – just hit the Stop and Back buttons…
 *  Thread Starter [aliferste](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aliferste/)
 * (@aliferste)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408064)
 * Hmmmm, thats good to hear actually 🙂
 * Right, changed it to the most recent 5 posts!
 * Any other comments !
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408070)
 * If you look in your sidebar php file and find the blogroll php code, you can 
   copy this and put it in a Page you will create. You will need a plugin to allow
   you to run php code in a page/post.
 * And, I don’t think your sidebar is cluttered. Look at mine.
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408077)
 * I think it’s always a good idea to have a simple sidebar, but as long as it’s
   obvious to users that it’s not the main focus of the site, you can have whatever.
   The main problem is that if there’s too much users just won’t bother reading 
   it, or they’ll get confused.
 * I’ve noticed that people often just click the first link they find, even if there’s
   loads of actual content left!
 * I’ve actually come full circle now, regarding the sidebar, and I’m not including
   one on my latest redesign — keeps the focus on the sidebar and makes things less
   confusing!
 * To answer your question, from my point of view, it’s a very well designed sidebar,
   everything is clear and nicely spaced and it’s the right width so as not to be
   confused with the content, but there might just be too much information that 
   will either distract people or just get ignored.
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408081)
 * Usability is the key. And knowing who your intended audience is will also be 
   important. My blog design is just for me. It’s just a place for me to keep my
   journal and be a test site for me to learn php. It has expanded and my intent
   has changed (as will always happen). I’d like to use it for helping me in my 
   teaching. I want to store my life’s photographs there. But in both of these cases,
   WP appears not to be the appropriate tool. You really have to use the right tool
   for the right situation.
 * And now I have WP on my local computer to help me test things and help people
   I see with problems in the WP forum.
 * Anyway, sorry for the lengthy response which is perhaps off-topic.
 *  Thread Starter [aliferste](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aliferste/)
 * (@aliferste)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408199)
 * Thanks very much everyone certainly made me think 🙂
 * Any other comments about my blog before I go thinking that everything is rosy?
 *  [msadventures](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msadventures/)
 * (@msadventures)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408200)
 * I think it looks very nice and well organized. The different sections are clearly
   labeled. Personally, I see no reason to change the sidebar at all.
 *  [Dgold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgold/)
 * (@dgold)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408204)
 * You should warn people that they’ll have to continually click “Next Page” because
   your page is so short.
 * Kidding, but – design for your readership and preferences, not some generic and
   imaginary rule on length and shape.
 *  Thread Starter [aliferste](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aliferste/)
 * (@aliferste)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebard-clutter/#post-408221)
 * 😉

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