Comments on: Is Your Blog Cluttered?

By: Adam Pieniazek

Adam Pieniazek — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:51:59 +0000

Think it all depends on what's in your sidebar. If it's useful information like here, keep it. If it's mostly junk (like it was on my personal blog) drop it. We just did the same on the new The Lost Jacket site, where we dropped the sidebar on the blog and moved recent posts and recent comments to the footer. Everything else was mostly junky logos and other stuff most readers don't care about.

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:05:09 +0000

Haha, yeah plugins are a tricky thing to keep track of. And I agree about the sidebar, I’ve seen some wicked widgets in the past. I’ve seen a few that made me think “What was the creator thinking?”

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:03:44 +0000

Yeah that’s another great idea. I just haven’t been able to get myself to do it yet! I’d feel naked without it…

By: jan geronimo

jan geronimo — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:28:34 +0000

Great observation especially about the sidebar. That’s a common blogger’s weakness – saddling the side bar with anything under the sun. Some shiny, some blinking, usually unnecessary.

Your anecdote about plugins is very funny. I can identify with it. “,)

By: Adam Pieniazek

Adam Pieniazek — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:16:08 +0000

The best way to manage your widgets and plugins is to drop the sidebar completely.

Having done so a couple months back, my blog is now much less cluttered because, well, there’s no place to put the clutter!

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:16:30 +0000

It’s a great gig and helping bloggers is a really fun job. Highly recommend it!

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:14:56 +0000

Good job on fixing it early on. It’s definitely easier to keep a blog clean if you do it on a consistent basis.

I guess it’s no different than cleaning your room…people just like to procrastinate.

By: Justin Wright

Justin Wright — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:11:32 +0000

Haha, I’m the same way on a few blogs. I find all these awesome plugins and want them, even if they don’t do anything for me.

By: Tamahome Jenkins

Tamahome Jenkins — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:10:08 +0000

I’m a bit of a plugin/widget packrat, so I have to go in at least once a month to deactivate unnecessary plugins. I think I might have finally reached plugin equilibrium, though, because I haven’t had to do this in a couple of months

By: Melvin

Melvin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:41:51 +0000

This article is so true. I think this is the biggest problem with plugins. Since they work wonders and they are really useful, a lot of people are addicted to collecting and collecting them even if it has no use in their blog.

I used to have a cluttered blog but I was able to fix it a long time already.. retweeted.