Q: How do you organize your blog in terms of what is in your side bar? Do you have categories and defined sections in your side bar? (submitted by Elizabeth @ Silver’s Reviews)
A: My whole journal aesthetic is meant to be pretty but clean. I try to keep my social media stuff right at the top to ensure that people can find me all over the web. After that, I added my affiliate link, along with search bar, categories dropdown, and recent posts widgets. I don’t really have any plan after that stuff. Instagram feed, Goodreads updates, and anything else goes below. Although my final piece is always my disclaimer post. I want people to know that this blog is just me speaking (or my guest bloggers) and that we are allowed to have opinions about stuff that don’t necessary reflect those of our employers or other people in our lives.
Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer that runs from Friday to Thursday.
Visit other blogs in the list and comment on their posts. Try to spend some time on the blogs reading other posts and possible become a new follower. The purpose of the hop is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.
I’ve been wanting to change my layout, but I need to get myself motivated and sit down and do it,lol
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Finding the right look can be so difficult, and there always seems to be something to change. I have to limit myself to how many times I make changes, or I would be changing things daily. Haha! 🙂
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Putting your social media right at the top is so lovely! That is definitely something I want to do with my blog once I figure out some custom coding.
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I’m very grateful for the premade themes on WordPress. I can still change things a bit, but it spots me from going crazy and changing everything. I don’t know if I could do custom coding… I’m a coding newbie.
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Your setup is great!!
I like seeing the follow information at the top. Perfect order of side bar items.
Very nice blog….love the neat and clean look.
Have a great Sunday, and a great reading week.
Happy Hopping!!
Elizabeth
Silver’s Reviews
My Blog Hop Answer
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Thanks! I hope I can get some more reading done this week. I’ve been reading but not blogging lately, so I also have to catch up on that. 😛
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I tend to spend more time on my blog. 🙂
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I agree that social media should be near the top and easily accessible. I love sharing posts and tagging the authors. If that information is easy to find, I’m more likely to share!
Terri M., the Director
http://secondrunreviews.com
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Same! Also, if I really like someone’s blog, I want to be able to follow them on other platforms, so it shouldn’t be difficult to find that information.
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Yes, the sidebars on my own site need customizing by code, which has to be a future project. I don’t like the archive options on the main sidebar, where it pops a label “Archives” above a dropdown, also labeled Archives.
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