CMS Modifiying the CMS sidebar? Blocks and Widgets? Oh My!
 

Okay, I searched.

I attempted to read the non existant manual.

I explored.

I failed.

1. How the heck does one modify the content of the CMS sidebar? Not the actual blog, forum, and comments, but add or change or reorder the "blocks or widgets".

2. Which brings me to my second question.... What is the difference between a block and a widget? So far, the only thing I can figure out is that they are exactly the same, except widgets are blocks only available to the front page CMS, while blocks are widgets only available to the "sidebar" available on the forum.

3. Which brings me to my third question. Why is the sidebar on the forum, different than the sidebar on the CMS? They are both Sidebars, are they not? Kind of like Thing 1 and Thing 2. After reading the comments posted here by the tecnocrati, I see a huge amount of angst, and I am beginning to see why. So Sidebar 1 (CMS) is not like Sidebar 2 (Forum), and we can never have a Sidebar 3(Blog?).