Sidebar components
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There are a number of pre-built components available for use in the sidebars of the blog:

·Archive Months  
 
·Archive Years  
 
·Calendar  
 
·Category RSS Feed  
 
·Enhanced Search Component  
 
·Fav: My Favorite Web Logs  
 
·Login Form  
 
·Logout Button  
 
·Recent Articles  
 
·Recent Book Reviews  
 
·Recent Entries  
 
·Recent Movie Reviews  
 
·Recent Music Reviews  
 
·Recent Photos  
 
·Recent Reviews  
 
·Recent Trackbacks  
 
·Recent Visitors  
 
·RSS Headline Component  
 
·Search  
 
·Topics  
 
·Welcome Text  


Archive Months
This is a list of the months for which there are entries in the current category. The months are listed in reverse chronological order, and are listed by their full name followed by the year. The default number of months is five.

Users can change the number of archive months from five months to a maximum of twelve months.

Each month is a link to a page containing the current category's entries for that month. For example, if you click on the January 2004 link in the main page, you will be taken to a page showing all the entries that appeared on the main page in January 2004.


Archive Years
This is a list of up to five years for which there are entries in the current category. The years are listed in reverse chronological order.

Each year is a link to the last page for the current category for that year. For example, if you click on the 2004 link in the main page, you will be taken to the last page of entries for the main page for 2004. (The size of a page, which is either a set number of entries or a set number of days of entries, is determined by the settings on the Navigation page of the Settings & Security section.)


Calendar
This component displays the calendar for the month corresponding to the articles you are currently reading. Clicking on a day within the calendar opens a page containing all the entries posted to the current category on that day.


Category RSS Feed
This component is only visible if syndication is activated (see Syndication, under the Settings & Security tab). If this component is active, a Syndicate This Category link gives readers access to the syndication feed that lists the latest entries posted under the current category.


Enhanced Search Component
When used in a blog layout, this component allows readers to perform a search on the current blog, or on all blogs within the Technorati blog index. To search Technorati's keyword index, readers much click the Search all blogs checkbox before clicking the Go button to start the search.

The search results are returned in reverse chronological order, and are displayed as a list of items containing the following:
·The title of the entry in which the search terms appear.  
·The author of the entry and the date and time when the entry was published.  
·A link to the entry in which the search parameters were found.  
·A short excerpt from the entry in which the search terms appear. The search terms appear in bold text.  


Fav: My Favorite Web Logs
This is a favorites list that has been pre-filled with links to some popular blogs. It is included with every new blog to help you get started. You may change this list to suit your needs, delete it entirely, or create additional lists in the Favorites section.


Login Form
This component allows readers with accounts to log in, and provides a link to a page where readers without accounts can sign up for one. This component is visible only when the reader is not logged in.


Logout Button
This component allows a logged-in reader to log out. It is visible only when the reader is logged in.


Recent Articles
This component lists the titles of the most recent articles posted to your blog. Up to five articles are listed, in reverse chronological order. Each title is a link to the corresponding article's individual page. For example, if you click on an article title, you will be taken to the page containing the full entry for that article, complete with trackbacks (if enabled) and comments and a comment entry form (if comments are enabled).


Recent Book Reviews
This is a list of the titles of the most recent book reviews posted to your blog. Up to five book reviews are listed, in reverse chronological order. As with the Recent Articles component, each title is a link to the corresponding book review's individual page.


Recent Entries
This is a list of the titles of the most recent entries — articles, reviews, and photos — posted to the blog. Up to five entries are listed, in reverse chronological order. This component has the same functionality of the Recent Articles or Recent Book Reviews components, but includes multiple entry types.


Recent Movie Reviews
This is a list of the titles of the most recent movie reviews posted to the blog. Up to five movie reviews are listed, in reverse chronological order. Each title is a link to the corresponding movie review's individual page.


Recent Music Reviews
This is a list of the titles of the most recent music reviews posted to the blog. Up to five music reviews are listed, in reverse chronological order. Each title is a link to the corresponding music review's individual page.


Recent Photos
This is a list of the titles and thumbnails for the most recent photos posted to the blog. Up to five photos are displayed, in reverse chronological order. Each title and thumbnail is a link to the corresponding photo's individual page.


Recent Reviews
This is a list of the titles of the most recent reviews — movie, music, and book reviews — posted to the blog. Up to five reviews are listed, in reverse chronological order. Each title is a link to the corresponding review's individual page.


Recent Trackbacks
This is a list of the most recent trackbacks pointing to the blog. Up to five trackbacks are listed, in reverse chronological order. Each item in the list is the title of a trackback-enabled blog containing an entry that recently pointed to an entry in your blog. Clicking an item takes you to the corresponding trackback item.


Recent Visitors
This is a list of up to the five most recent logged-in readers to view the blog. If the reader provided a first and last name in their account settings, the reader's first and last name appears in the list, followed by the date and time their visit commenced. Otherwise, the reader's username appears, followed by the date and time their visit commenced.


RSS Headline Component
This component allows you to provide links to the most recent posts at a particular URL. Each RSS Headline component is dedicated to one feed, and can be configured to display from 1 — 20 of the most recent additions to the URL. For details on how to create an RSS Headline component, see RSS Headline Components under the Favorites tab.


Search
This component allows readers to perform a search of the blog's entries by entering one or more search terms (separated by spaces) in the provided text field and clicking the Go button to start the search.

The search results are displayed as a list of items containing the following:

·The title of the entry in which the search terms appear.  
·The author of the entry and the date and time when the entry was published.  
·A short excerpt from the entry in which the search terms appear. The search terms appear in bold text.  


Topics
This is a list of subcategories for the current category. The order in which subcategories appear is set for each category in the Category Settings page of the Post Manager section.

Each item in the list is a link to the most recent page for that category. For example, if you click on a link, you are taken to the last page of entries for that category. (The size of a page, which is either a set number of entries or a set number of days of entries, is determined by the settings on the Navigation page of the Settings & Security section.)


Welcome Text
This component displays a greeting message to logged-in readers. The text of the greeting message is "Welcome, [name]," where [name] is the username of the reader's account.