Zero to Hero: Day Thirteen
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The Links Widget displays a list of links (also known as a blogroll) in your sidebar. If you want to recommend related site to your followers, this is the widget that will display a blogroll you create in your dashboard.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/links-widget/The Blogs I Follow Widget allows you to list some of the blogs that you are following via the WordPress.com Reader in your sidebar. You can show your list as either a simple text list, or as a grid of images.
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Added websites relevant to my subject matter. Also found out I am 50% faster/slower than others. I will begin working on that tomorrow.
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Didn’t created blogroll. I’m happy with my blogs-I-follow option. And I have written post on that subject too. So if you are interested in seeing which Blogs-I-follow-and-love, you know where to click..
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@timethief…..thank you for the tips to reduce page load.
I sure have a ton of posts to add the more tag to. But glad to do it so that it cleans up my blog.
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Looking forward to doing this, but want to understand more about pages first. My sidebar is starting to look really cluttered!
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@cogitoergomum, we definitely don’t want that! A page may be the way to go.
Looking at your sidebar, you’ve got several badges — you might condense those into one widget, and put the at the bottom, since they’re least helpful to readers. Also, you’ve got a large tag cloud — think about using categories, and then using the Category widget to help folks navigate. That displays as a drop-down menu, which is cleaner.
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@timethief regarding the number of posts appearing on the front page
2. Reduce the number of posts appearing on the front page here > Settings > Reading
Blog pages show at most _ postsI have mine set to 3 and all posts are still showing (I did save the changes and refreshed my page). Do I need to change another setting? thanks!
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@michelleweber and @thistimethisplace thank you for explaining the difference between blog roll and blogs I follow. I understand the difference now!
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@michelleweber
I cannot access Day 14 as when I click on the forum link, it keeps saying….page cannot display, bad link. -
A year on WP and I didn’t know about the “more” feature. Now I am going back and editing all my posts and rearranging my format again. Thanks for the information!
(I’ve been a bad Zero to Hero participant, but promise to reform now with this new found knowledge)
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Just found this very cool challenge series and I am trying to figure out how to apply it all to my blog since it’s really a webcomic. Any ideas? http://www.thelegendoftheforgottenisle.wordpress.com
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So glad this for this assignment… It still took me awhile, because I let myself get sidetracked experimenting with too many options. But it was a nice breather!
@timethief, thanks for pointing out http://tools.pingdom.com as a way to check site performance. My blog rates as faster than 74% of all tested websites. I’m not sure how good/bad that is overall. I may go back and try some of your helpful suggestions on speeding up load time. Thanks for all the tips you’ve been posting in the Zero to Hero forums!
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@amateurlee
re: My blog rates as faster than 74% of all tested websites.
That’s good and you’re welcome. :) -
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i need to add the blogroll to a separate page but my template doesn’t support this, is their any automatic way to do this other than posting each link manually?
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