Art of Blogging

WordPress has all sorts of plugins. Loads and loads of them. A lot of work is put into them, both on the development side and the utilization side. Usually, they are nice and slick.

Sometimes, that is just too much to hope for. Lately, it is even getting worse and only exacerbated by my using the WordPress MU engine.

Sometimes, a simple and crude hack is a better solution.

IMNHO, here is such a hack.

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Blog’s all have a navigation column and in WordPress, this is called the Sidebar. The actual file that controls this located in your themes/ directory and is called sidebar.php. If you want to add things like advertisement to your sidebar, this is the file to edit. Notice, if you change your blog theme, you will have to edit the new sidebar.php in the new theme. Today, I will show you how to find this file and how to edit it.

Before we get started…

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