WordPress Widgets are Working!

I was kicking around the idea of shelling out $100/yr for wordpress hosting – mostly because widgets weren’t working.  Seems like a silly reason to spend $100 a year, but I was increasingly frustrated that I was unable to use most of the widgets provided by wordpress.  I couldn’t customize the right hand column of this blog. As you can see now, I have a calendar, tag cloud and links down the right hand side.  Now looking at previous posts, my blogroll (links) and searching this blog by tags is far easier for visitors.  I still may opt to move this blog to its own domain and hosting to allow for further customization of the format (CSS) and for more control.  I really like the layout of Wal-Mart’s “Checkout Blog”.  In the mean time I am satisfied.

- Bill Weber

photo credit: dillon-k