WordPress widgets allow you to dynamically add content to sidebars directly from the wordpress control panel. I think this is a great option. The reason I’m using a Blog CMS is to reduce the amount of code I have to write, so this means less markup in my theme. I’m using only one sidebar on this site with a few widgets, including search, categories and links.

There are a few tricks to get widgets to work how you want, but it is relatively quick and painless. I’ll give an example of how I made this theme widget ready.

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