Get the most out of your sidebars.
Are sidebars even relevant in the age of minimal design and mobile browsers?
Sidebars are an excellent way to focus your visitors attention on important stuff in your content. It is a better way to focus attention on the relevant information in your page. Using targeted content in your sidebar makes sure your visitors notice it.
Most themes have one or two sidebars used to provide visitors information about your website. WordPress provides a bunch of standard widgets you can use in your sidebars. Plugins you add to your site may add additional widgets.
Sidebars are a blank canvas with infinite possibilities, so it is very easy to mess them up. Sidebars are not a place to stuff all the random information you don’t know where else to put.
Sidebars are a place to highlight the important stuff in your website.