Widgets are an easy way for you to arrange and rearrange your sidebar to your hearts content without touching a line of code. If you see a “Sidebar Editor” menu item under the Presentation tab, that means your active theme has sidebar options. (It’s not live for every theme, so try a few different ones out.) Play around with making your blog a little more personal, and rest assured we have more on the way. Using a widget-ready theme, you can bring the popular customization feature from WordPress.com to your very own, hosted WordPress installation. On the surface, they’re just things you can use to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML. A widget is something that you might want on your sidebar, such as a category list or the most recent comments or a link to your admin pages. There is even a widget that lets you type whatever you want in the sidebar, such as some HTML or Javascript code.