Hi,
You can find many blogs which has assigned special style to latest post at his blog. In order to apply the different style on latest posts you need perform this procedure:
1) Need to edit the index.php file of your theme. Search this code in index.php:
while (have_posts()) : the_post();
After this code add this code in index [...]

The stadard wp_list_categories() functions echoes a list of all your categories. With this simple trick we can display the categories in two columns. This code is easy to implemented and doesn’t need high level skill to add on our theme. Just paste this code on your theme file and you are ready to split your wp_list_categories()

< ?php
$cats [...]

by Jean-Baptiste Jung
2008 was a very good year for the WordPress community. The software was updated numerous times, leading to the recent release of version 2.7, and many new blogs dedicated to WordPress were created. Of course, tons of new hacks were discovered, which helped lots of bloggers enhance their blogs.
In this article, we’ll show [...]

Hello All,

In order to display single post in wordpress blog sidebar one need to perform below mentioned steps:

1) Write and publish a post.
2) Find out the post’s ID (egg. 143)
3) Open your themes Sidebar.php
4) Include this code:

<?php query_posts(’p=143′); if(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

That’s it!

Thanks,

Shane G.