If you’ve ever had any interest in purchasing a news premium WordPress theme, you’re probably familiar with the works of Adii, who is the guy behind the Premium News themes.   Not only am I a fan of much of his work, but I also am a fan of his blog, where he is truly an open book and isn’t afraid to share this secrets to success with his readers.

One of Adii’s post recent posts is a great tutorial write up explaining how to create a YouTube video tabber in WordPress.  For those unfamiliar with a tabber, it basically allows you to create tabs for things.  In this case, you can use tabs to display multiple YouTube videos, such as this example from his original premium News theme:

Click over to check out the steps needed to achieve something like this in WordPress.

As blogging continues to evolve and WordPress themes continue to become more functional, it is my belief that we will start to see more themes using tabs to help manage sidebar content. The problem with sidebar tabs is that they require Javascript to use, so very few themes seem to be using them.

I won’t claim to be a whiz with javascript, but I found that creating tabs was not overly difficult. I’ve recently switched a section of my sidebar over to tabs on my other primary blog, Slick Affiliate, to help manage my sidebar content. So far I am very happy with the results. It allows me to provide readers with a bunch of different site navigation options while not really taking up any extra room, so people that want it can use and it isn’t in the way for people that don’t want to browse archives or see my top commentators.

If you are interested in doing something similar for your weblog, Headset Options wrote a series of posts studying the anatomy of a Magazine WordPress theme. The second post is actually dedicated to covering some types of javascript and focuses on Domtab and Tabber. You’ll find a nice examination and then a tutorial of how to add this to your WordPress blog. If you aren’t familiar with either type of javascript, I recommend you start with Tabber, as it is quite a bit easier to work with in my opinion.

What is your opinion of sidebar tabs? Do you find it more convenient or does it make the content harder to find?