Back in the day (pre-Wordpress 2.5…I think) much of the sidebar additions were not “widgetized”. Meaning; much of the sidebar(s) had been “hard-coded”. For those knowledgeable with PHP could edit their Theme’s sidebar.php file and manipulate their own Blogroll text to read as something else.

Now that the latest versions of WordPress are fully “widgetized”, there appears to be some confusion as to HOW to edit their blogroll title to read as something else…something more conducive to their own blog / website.

The EASIEST way to do this is to simply use the Blogroll widget and add it to which-ever sidebar they would like it to reside. By now, they have probably entered several links to their Blogroll and they would rather not edit all those links. Here’s how it’s done within their blog:

Links->Link Categories

From here, change BOTH the original Blogroll Title and Slug to whatever the author feels appropriate. The only thing to remember is that the “Slug” should contain “dashes” where the Title contains “spaces” and that the “Slug” should be all lower-case letters.

That’s all. Oh, save your changes.

Happy blogging.