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.

Who hasn’t seen a 404 error page in his life? I’m sure there rarely is anyone. And you’ll probably agree with me that 404 errors are boring—especially when you’re looking for something that appears to have been moved.This is why it is very important to have a custom and useful 404 page. In this recipe, I’ll show you how to do it for your WordPress blog.
To achieve this recipe, you need a 404.php file. Most WordPress themes actually feature this kind of page. If, for some reason, your theme doesn’t feature such a page,

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Back in 2003, when blogs weren’t as popular as they are nowadays, an average 2000 users used a blogging platform created by Michel Valdrighi known as b2.This year, two b2 users, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, decided to create a fork of b2 and named it as WordPress.Due to its open source license and community development, WordPress quickly started to gain popularity as more and more bloggers adopted it as a blogging platform.

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to help make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay.