Getting the blog working right

As with anything Interweb related, getting everything working just right always ends us taking more time that you bargained for. I mean, I sit down to write a little post about my Essene bread (happily dehydrating as I write) and find that the theme I installed doesn’t have a login area in the sidebar. OK, so how do I log in? I ssh into the server and start fiddling with the sidebar.php file. Thank heavens I know UNIX and can use a shell, because I can’t actually work out how I would have solved this without logging in through a terminal and editing manually. As it is, I have not yet got it working fully. I tried installing the widget “SidebarLogin” but it seems not to work. So I grabbed some php code and put that straight in. I am missing a box, but that’s decoration. At least I can log in! I’ll be back in a minute with some pictures of my Essene bread in the making.