Help! My Sidebar Disappeared

One of the most frequently posted design questions on blog forums and help sites has to do with the fact that the sidebar suddenly disappears after a user places something (usually an image) in their sidebar. There are a couple interrelated reasons for this.

WordPress, Sidebars and Widgets, Oh my!

I wrote a guest blog for Engtech in which I detailed a way for you to use different sidebars for the different pageviews of your WordPress theme. After much anticipation it has finally been posted.
When I first heard of WordPress widgets, I was appropriately disgruntled. ‘Widgets? We don’t need no stinking Widgets,’ I grumbled. I [...]