{"id":10937,"date":"2007-11-25T15:16:59","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T12:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/25\/having-fun-with-the-sidebar\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T00:25:19","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:25:19","slug":"having-fun-with-the-sidebar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/11\/25\/having-fun-with-the-sidebar\/","title":{"rendered":"Having fun with the Sidebar"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I had a mood and a few moments to spend on making my blog better.  This time I decided to take a closer look at the sidebar.  I&#8217;m not finished yet, but the changes that you can see are the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compressed archives.  Archives have been taking too much of valuable space, so now they are compressed.  You can either navigate (page by page) through archives for a particular year (which, I guess is not very useful), or click on a plug sign near the year that you are interested in.  You&#8217;ll see the year expand into a list of months that have posts.  Click on any month, and you&#8217;ll see the posts.  If you want similar functionality for your blog, I used the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.romantika.name\/v2\/2007\/08\/10\/wordpress-plugin-collapsible-archive-widget\/\">Collapsible Archive Widget plugin<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On this day.  I&#8217;ve been blogging for a few years now and managed to accumulate quite  a few posts here.  But neither me, nor most of the visitors to this blog ever went through the archives of this blog.  It&#8217;s a shame, since there is plenty of cool stuff in there.  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