How do friends see my posts?
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@meseemarvel, Before you add any widgets, you see a sample set generated by the theme itself. Once you add a widget, that sample set will disappear and you have to manually add back in the widgets that you want in the sidebar.
Before you added any widgets what you were seeing was the theme-generated display of archives, categories, links and meta widgets.
Go to appearance > widgets and simply drag and drop the widgets I listed above back over and into the sidebar section and arrange them as you wish.
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thesacredpath
I’m still wondering about this bit of the RSS widget please…
” How many items would you like to display? (10, 15 etc)” .. um, display where? in someone who subscribes email???
Display item content? ( my blog posts are already displayed so what does this mean??)
Display item author if available? (ditto qu above.. my posts already say Kiwidutch… )
Display item date? ( ditto again..)
.. no clue what that means if I check those boxes … obviously it’s something you can opt to ” take or leave” but if you take it.. what effect is produced? and is it ( easily, ie idiot proof) reversible if you then decide you don’t want it?
once again Thanks for the help… you Helpers are very patient with Slow Learners like myself LOL.
kind regards… kiwidutch :)
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I go to to appearance > widgets and simply drag and drop the widgets. I do this and it erases most things in front of it or brings me nothing but a category/Link title. Blank. I can’t explain it. I go to my dashboard and everything is there but nothing shows of my blog even if I drag widgets over.
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Which widget are we supposed to see in your sidebar? I see three widgets right now. Also, if you’re inserting one wider than the sidebar, it will often bump the entire sidebar to below your posts; is that what may be happening?
kiwidutch, I had a long answer for you, but this stupid computer erasedit. The long and short of it is, you can tinker without breaking anything, so why not try picking arbitrary settings for the widget and seeing how it looked? That’s how we all started, since it popped up out of nowhere and we had to figure it out without instructions. Also, different people have different styles: I’ve got so much in my sidebar I prefer to keep individual widget simple, so no date, no author, and a smaller number of items shown. You might prefer to have some of that visible. Play with it.
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@meseemarvel, you have three posts, each assigned to the default “uncategorized” category. No matter how many categories you create, until they have been assigned to at least one published post, they will not show up in the sidebar widget.
If you had created text widgets with thing in them, go to the bottom of appearance > widgets page and see if they are in the “inactive” widgets area. If they are, drag them up and into the sidebar.
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Alright. Your advice worked. I dragged “Links” back up to my “sidebar” and all my information is back up. Thanks for your patience. Now, I’m to study about “widgets” more to gain a better understanding.
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Yikes Raincoaster,
you are so right… I just played with my widget ( ouch that reads badly doesn’t it LOL)So: today’s discoveries are:
a) ” display item content? ” in the RSS widget drop-down means that if I check that box then on the right hand side of my blog, I get *not only* the heading of each post but also an entire slab of text from each post… yikes THAT put waaay too much text into the sides of my blog, so I saw that for me at least this isn’t a box that I want to tick.b) I discovered that ticking the name or date boxes in the RSS widget means that my name and the date is added to the headings of the posts on the right hand side of my blog… again, not for me as my name is already at the top of my blog and each of my posts are already dated… since these are on the same page I don’t need to repeat the information.
I suppose my biggest and worst fear is that I know so little about computing and the technical jargon that everyone uses here, and i’m scared of making a change to my blog that I don’t know how to undo …. and is now a good time to admit that I *thought* that RSS widget didn’t actually change the appearance of my blog, but that it was something that people used to subscribe to my blog and that therefore that the RSS widget was something that effected what went into other people’s email. ( yep , was I wrong about that!)
Just like meseemarvel, I will also go and check out the youtube link that your provided (thanks!)
I DID try and do a search on the RSS widget for information but that link didn’t show up for me…I am trying to take baby steps not only in learning how the blog works, but also how the guts of the set-up to run the blog does… no mean feat for a technophobic newbie, I assure you.
So… I’m a step or two further along the learning curve LOL .. most excellent!
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I have one more question (for now) that I’d like to annoy you all with if I may,…
… Now that I have added my link into the RSS widget and given it a name, how exactly does this connect other people who want to subscribe to my blog? does it link to their email … or…?
.. and how can I check that it’s working please?
Thanks once again for your excellent patience… it’s very much appreciated.
kind regards… kiwidutch :)
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