Adding other blog info to your blog

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  lisavproulx · Member · Feb 16, 2012 at 10:56 pm

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  Hi there!

  I have noticed on other people’s blogs (not WP) that they have a column where they can list other blogs they are following.

  Can we do that on WP?

  Also, I want to add a button for a writing group that I am in and they gave me the code but where do I add that on my dashboard?

  Thanks so much! :)

  Lisa

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Feb 16, 2012 at 11:03 pm

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  Hi there,
  Here here for how to create a Blogroll. See here for how to display it in your sidebar using a Links Widget.
  As for the button code you can place it in a text widget.

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Feb 16, 2012 at 11:05 pm

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  This link will explain to you how to create a blogroll (which is, I think, what you mean):

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/

  To add a button to your side panel you’ll need to paste the code into a text widget. Here’s how to use a text widget:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

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  absurdoldbird · Member · Feb 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm

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  @TT – sorry, I am so slow with my typing that by the time I’m ready to post my response someone else has beaten me to it!

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  lisavproulx · Member · Feb 17, 2012 at 2:55 pm

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  Hi and thank you all for your time!

  I have tried all of your suggestions and none of it comes up on my blog!

  Don’t know what I am doing wrong!

  Lisa

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  justpi · Member · Feb 17, 2012 at 3:04 pm

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  a) You visit the other blogs and copy their complete addresses from the address bar of your browsers.
  b) You use those addresses to create Links in Links > Add New.
  c) You go to Appearance > Widgets and drag a Links widget to Sidebar.

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  lisavproulx · Member · Feb 17, 2012 at 8:27 pm

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  Okay, I go to Appearance>Widgets>

  On the right hand side it reads:
  SECONDARY SIDEBAR
  FEATURE AREA
  FIRST FOOTER AREA
  SECOND FOOTER AREA

  I have no idea what this means.

  Where do I drag the LINKS (Your Blogroll)?

  I would like my Blogs That I Follow to be on the right hand side of my blog page.

  Thanks again! :)

  Lisa

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  justpi · Member · Feb 18, 2012 at 12:41 am

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  You drag the Links widget to the Primary Sidebar.
  As for what those other modules mean, see here:

  The Coraline layouts (and the Mullenweg-Pearson dispute…)