WordPress Step by Step Tutorial Step 17– Adding Navigation Widgets to the Sidebar.
Now that I have had the site up for over a month, it’s time I think to add some content to the sidebar. As it stands right now, we are not providing users with any way to access older content other then searching for it.
To do this we are going to add some additional widgets to our sidebar. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add the Archives, Recent Posts and Categories Widgets. In all 3 cases I am leaving the default settings, but each Widget has some options that you may want to utilize, so have a look by selecting the edit option for each. Bear in mind that you can rearrange the order of the Widgets by selecting any of the Widgets and dragging and dropping them in the order you prefer.
Once you have them the way you like save changes and you are good to go. There are plugins available that allow you to customize accessing old content in all sorts of different ways and we may explore those later but for now at least we have provided some easy access to some of our older content.