Hmmmm
I’m thinking seriously of migrating the sidebar entirely to widgets — and I’m a bit puzzled why a theme designer would include archives, posts, etc. code in the sidebar.php file in a widget-friendly theme, when all of them (and more) are available as widgets. The problem with using both is that all of the widgets have to go together (if I’m mistaken, please tell me). The RSS feeds, currently at the bottom of the sidebar, are widgets. If I wanted to use the calendar widget, it would have to go at the bottom with the RSS feed widgets, instead of where the archives are now.
We’ll see. I’m just learning about widgets because until I changed hosting providers, I was stuck with wordpress 1.5.2.