Pimped out my Blog

Written by andy on May 21st, 2006 in GamersCircle.

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I have spent the last couple of days molding this soapbox to the look and feel that I wanted. Thanks to my friend Michael whom helped me with the move. I was able to start focusing on other parts of the site.

One of the hurdles was getting the right side column to display everything that I wanted. I was using a great plug for Wordpress called “Sidebar Widgets” from Automattic, Inc. that was allowing me to very easily configure and move the code around in modules, but when I got to the Netflix plugin by Albert Banks it was like beating my head on a wall because it just would not work within the widget.

I basically went back to a stock sidebar.php and added it all in manually. So, if you take a look at it, you will see from the top are some ’site’ specific items which include “home“, “e-Mail“, “blog stats” and “rss“. ( I borrowed the idea from Chris and the images from the Qwilm! Theme)

I then had to display my Xbox Live Game Card and my Battlefield 2 stats via a plugin.

Items that a blog should also display are some pictures and I chose to display my free Flickr images along with the standard blog stuff like Categories and the Archives. On to displaying the movies that I am currently watching from Netflix and lastly you can now read my blog in 8 different languages because of the Automatic Machine Translation plugin too.