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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 [...]

I want to add an image to my blog that will show up all the time so I thought it would be a good time to introduce the Text Widget.   The Text Widget basically allows you to enter any custom item you would like such as some basic text, an image, maybe even something like [...]

If you’ve been following along with this series, you may have noticed this at the top of my dashboard, and yours as well:

As of WordPress version 2.7, you have the option to update your site ‘automagically’ via the admin console, and that’s what we are going to do in order to upgrade to v2.7.1. [...]

We are going to gussy things up a little bit now, and we are going to add another plug-in.   Go to:http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-lightbox-balupton-edition/  and select the big orange download button.  do the usual download/install/activate plug-in dance.
Now, once you have done that, go and download and install this plug-in:  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-lightbox/
Once they are both installed, click on an image [...]

In our last of our mini 3-part series on setting up some Google tools, we are going to setup Google Analytics.   Analytics is a term used to define the information that is collected and analyzed about a web site or in our case, a blog.  Google raised eyebrows a few years back by buying a [...]