New to wordpress and need help with editing layout

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  thebowlboy · Member · Apr 13, 2009 at 1:43 pm

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  Hi I just imported my blog from blogger because I was’nt happy with the templates available there. I have very limited coding abilities. I’m using the andreas 3 column template. I really like the look of the layout but have a couple of questions.

  1) When I create new links, or new link categories, how do I control which sidebar they appear in?

  2) By default this layout has a home, and about button at the top kinda like a nav bar. I thought that adding new pages would automatically create a button in this bar for the new page but this is not the case. Is there a way for me to do this?

  My blog can be viewed here http://thebowlboy.wordpress.com

  Thanks.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 13, 2009 at 1:54 pm

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  1- dashboard > widgets > from the drop down menu, choose “main sidebar” or “right sidebar” > add widgets you like > remember to “save changes”
  The default widgets will disappear when you add one of your own to a sidebar. If one of them is one you want, simply add it back in.

  2- Did you publish the page? Is it a (main) parent page? Child pages won’t appear in navigation.

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  thebowlboy · Member · Apr 14, 2009 at 6:48 pm

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  Hey thanks for the help 1 Tess. I’ve figured it now. Check out my blog if you’d like any tips or suggestions would be great thanks!