Q:Regarding WordPress:
I was wondering if you knew how to display the excerpt for next and previous posts in the side bar if you are on a blog page?

Anonymous

WordPress has a get_previous_post() and a get_next_post() function that return most of the information pertaining to the next/prev posts.

<?php
$prev_post = get_previous_post();
if ($prev_post) {
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($prev_post->ID) . '">&larr; '. $prev_post->post_title . '<br />' . $prev_post->post_excerpt . '</a>';
}

$next_post = get_next_post();
if ($next_post) {
echo '<a href="' . get_permalink($next_post->ID) . '">'. $next_post->post_title . ' &rarr;<br />' . $next_post->post_excerpt . '</a>';
}
?>