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I have two blogs, and would like to know if the following is possible. What I would like to do is set up both blogs to appear to be the same, as far as template, so that each subject matter has its own sidebar content (ads, links, etc.), but I would like to combine the Categories from both blogs in one widget, and do the same with the Recent Article widget. So that when you look at the Recent Article list, articles from both blogs appear together. The same with Categories. Is this possible? Do you have any other suggestions?