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  gloucestershirepetsitters · Member · May 23, 2011 at 4:50 pm

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  I am sorry about this but I am a real newbie boy on here, or maybe I am just a bit thick. I have chosen a theme called Mistylook by Sadish. It has 2 columns and 2 columns are set but I can not figure out how to use the second column and how to put something into that column. Please help.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 23, 2011 at 4:57 pm

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  I’d suggest you take a look at this tutorial:
  http://learn.wordpress.com/

  The second column is meant to contain widgets which are little “gadgets” to help your readers see your recent posts, comments, links to blogs you like, categories and tags you assign to your posts, archives, and many other things. You don’t have to put anything into your sidebar (second column) but many of the widgets are quite useful.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/topic/widgets-sidebars/

  But work through the tutorial first: that will go a long way toward getting you off to a good blog!

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  timethief · Member · May 23, 2011 at 4:58 pm

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  That column is strictly for widgets. You install them here > Appearance > Widgets
  The main page for widgets and sidebar support documentation is here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/topic/widgets-sidebars/ By clicking any of those links for widgets you can find out what they are for and how to install and configure them.

  I can recommend a comprehensive tutorial. The Learn WordPress.com tutorial is divided into progressive levels and presented as a series: http://learn.wordpress.com/

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  timethief · Member · May 23, 2011 at 4:59 pm

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  ~~ G’morning Tess. :)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 23, 2011 at 5:01 pm

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  Oh, one more thing, if you drag a widget into your sidebar (dashboard—>appearance—>widgets) and the others disappear, don’t worry. You can drag the ones you want back into the sidebar:

  Widgets and the no-widgets paradox

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 23, 2011 at 5:02 pm

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  ≥^!^≤
  Hi timethief! great minds, great volunteers, typing at the same time!