Can someone help me with a template issue?

Hello!! So I changed my Wordpress template to the free theme Theme: ChaoticSoul by Bryan Veloso. But all my side bars disappeared!!! I had my blog roll and everything on the side and now the only thing on the side is Pages, Archives & Categories...

trying to get it to look more like this blog on the side bar but I don't know where to add the new categories!! (or how). This is blog- just want to add different categories and my twitter feed like she has on her blog.

Anyone have an idea?
Much appreciated thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on August 18, 2009 at 1:27pm

Luckily, the copy of ChaoticSoul found on WordPress.com is widgetized (the self-hosted version of the theme, or at least the one I found, is not), so it will be very easy for you to mimic what you see. Your sidebar looks the way it does because the default sidebar comes like that , but adding widgets will override those defaults.

This handy graphic should make adding the widgets self-explanatory. Essentially, you'll just want to go to Appearance > Widgets, drag things over from that giant pool into the sidebar box, and tweak their settings until everything looks and works the way you want it to. Keep in mind that each change is made as soon as you drag that item over, so keeping the home page of your blog open in another window and refreshing that as you go might help so you know what you're doing.

Let me know if you run into any other problems.

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Permalink Reply by Mai on August 18, 2009 at 1:56pm

ooo it works!! Thanks so much Nick!!!

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Permalink Reply by nicopolitan on August 18, 2009 at 4:40pm

hah wow, this got resolved fast.

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Permalink Reply by Nick Tabick on August 18, 2009 at 4:43pm

That's the way it should be. ;) Especially when someone who tinkers around with WordPress sees a WordPress question. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Mai on August 18, 2009 at 4:59pm

Yes, yay!

Ok, so can you help me with one other thing? How do you find out what your RSS link is? I want to put an RSS feed link on my side bar but don't know what the link should be.