How do I show past posts on a sidebar?

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  sarahwbartlett · Member · Oct 20, 2009 at 1:55 am

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  Read through the support topics but cannot learn how to create sidebar list of past blog names. Also want to make categories lists more attractive. Help? Thanks :-)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 20, 2009 at 4:35 am

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  Use the recent posts widget. You can edit the number of posts it will show. I believe the maximum is 15: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/recent-posts-widget/ .

  As far as the categories widget, my suggestion would be to set it as a list instead of the pulldown unless you plan on having a huge number of categories. With the wide sidebar area in Vigilance, the pulldown looks pretty weak.

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  t3ck · Member · Oct 20, 2009 at 4:40 am

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  You can also use the top post widget also http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/top-posts-widget/

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  sarahwbartlett · Member · Oct 22, 2009 at 2:27 am

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  Thanks so much! I’ll get right on it . . . always seems so simple once someone in the know can point the way. :-)