One of the best ways to liven up a blog, and something that most of the premium themes look to do by default, is adding images to your posts. The usual method of doing this is by adding the image URL via a custom field. But there is a better and more flexible way.

Registering the sidebar is about more than just telling WordPress it exists. You also need to specify the structure of the sidebars.

I want to introduce you to a new function in 2.7 that might help to reduce the number of admin pages in your WordPress installation. The function allows plugin authors to extend the existing admin pages instead of creating new ones.