For more on how 2011 works see here:
http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/workings-of-duster/

When I posted an aside I chose the aside format for a comment I was making. I had assumed that because I had placed the widget under the footer area one, that details of it would appear there. Instead it just came up as a normal post and wasn't listed under the twenty twelve ephemera section. I've since taken it off as it wasn't what I wanted. I think I'm confused with how they will look visually on my page. Apart from length how should their appearance different from a normal blog post?

On the posts page I would like to add twenty eleven ephemera so i can post asides etc rather than having to have full posts - also makes it look more interesting.

Just to be clear an "Aside" is no an except from the text in an existing post. An aside is a post in the form of a post format that lacks a title and categories.

Aside – These are brief snippets of text that aren’t quite whole blog posts. Useful for quick thoughts and anecdotes

http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-formats/

There's a 5px left padding on those list elements. You can remove it by adding this to your Appearance → Custom Design → CSS page:

.widget_twentyeleven_ephemera .widget-entry-title {
	padding-left: 0 !important;
}

I am using this css:

.wf-active
.widget_twentyeleven_ephemera ol {
list-style:none;
}

Is there a more elegant way to do this? My approach seems to leave a 1-2px indent that I'd like to get rid of...

Signed, Very Anal Retentitve. :-D

I've had to do a work around by creating a std Text Widget with manual links to my posts now, which is really annoying so if we could get this soon it would be great. Thanks

You are correct that the "Recent Posts" widget will show all post types, including those in the Ephemera widget.

At the moment there is no way to show only Standard Posts or Recent Standard Posts in a widget, because all the Ephemera Post Types are included in the Widget.

Thanks

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So...unless you ONLY use links as an exotic post type, and don't use the other types, you can't recreate the functionality of the old 'blogroll' widget, which no longer appears. Is that correct?

Again, is this something a CSS upgrade (and a bit of tweaking, and a bit of luck) could sort for me?

many thanks,

Heather

I've check the Footer Area and I have no widgets working at all. Is the recent post widget permanent? I can't seem to get rid of this footer...

Also if possible, I would prefer only using the Twenty Eleven Ephemera widget because I can change the title.

I'm building my blog and would like to remove or change the "Ephemera" and "Recent Posts" titles or what ever you want to call it from the footer of the page where my posts are being shown. I would also like the option of having nothing at the footer of the page and only display the information posted on my pages.

I am using the Twenty Eleven theme and also using the Showcase template.

Hopefully I described it alright. Any information would be a great help.

Thanks

I can't seem to find how to do that. I know I can make a showcase page and any Aside or Link pages will be featured with the Ephemera Widget. But when I do that, I'm getting my most recent post actually posting on my Home Page (static Page) rather than just the link under the Featured Articles (Ephemera Widget) heading. I don't want posts to go on my home page at all. I just thought I might be able to add some widgets to the page if it was the showcase page without having the posts feed to that page as well.

Is that making sense?