New visitors discover blogs mainly through three sources:
- By referral from other blogs.
- Through search engines, looking for something specific.
- Social media websites
Out of these three sources, the third is notoriously known for delivering vast amounts of visitors with a rather short attention span. Social media users generally do not dedicate a lot of time to sites they visit and usually cannot be bothered to check the frontpage for a list of recent posts in order to discover other articles, that may interest them.
When the mountain won't come to Mohamed, Mohamed must go to the mountain. Which in this case means a necessity to duplicate the frontpage's functionality in a sidebar block. Such a task can easily be accomplished using the views module with this view definition. This definition will add a new block to the system, which has then to be enabled and assigned to convenient place in the sidebar through the block administration interface.