I’ve dumped XAMPP on my XP Home laptop for testing/hacking/etc. It’s a preconfigured Apache/PHP/MySQL install, you just unpack it and execute the mysql and httpd batch files.
It’s probably not very robust, but it’s an amazingly fast way to get a working development environment on an XP system.
Ahhh… after reading http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/3/3264, I realize that there are multiple definitions of sidebar. And I reread Techgnome’s post in this light, and it makes more sense to me now. These instructions will put a miniblog in the BROWSER sidebar. D’oh!
What I am actually trying to do is add a sidebar blog as a column along my main blog in index.php. Something (technically) along the lines of the “Guest Blog” at boingboing.
Apologies to anyone else I confused in my dazed state. 🙂
