There are a lot of things that you can add in your blog sidebar such as Blogroll, Feedburner suscribers, categories, 125*125 pixels ads, and more. The problem is, your sidebar becomes quite lengthy which isn’t visually appealing. And to make it worse, not too many people will scroll down your blog to see what is available at the very bottom of your sidebar.

You can create a tabbed sidebar by using some custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript codes. But the easiest solution is to use the “Fun With Sidebar Tabs” plugin, by Andrew Rickmann. The latest version of the plugin is 0.5.4. The plugin author has stopped maintaining it, but the plugin has been tested for its compatibility with WordPress versions up to 2.8. So, there’s no particular reason that the plugin will stop working properly for higher versions, but there’s no guarantee either.

The “Fun With Sidebar Tabs” plugin can be installed easily. Just follow these steps to
get started.1. Go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fun-with-sidebar-tabs/ and download your copy of the plugin.2. Install it on your blog by following the standard plugin installation procedure as described in Chapter 4.3. Once the plugin is installed and activated, go to Appearance | Widgets on your WordPress dashboard. You can then use either the Fun with Sidebars widget (by adding each Tabbed Sidebar widget into your main sidebar) or you can simply insert the following tag anywhere in your theme files: <?php the_tabbed_sidebar(1); ?>

The “Fun With Sidebar Tabs” plugin adds a new widget-ready sidebar which displays the widgets in it as tabs, instead of a list. It adds a widget and a template tag, so that it can be inserted wherever it needs to be.