I had been meaning to build a widgetizer - something that could widgetize any plugin for Wordpress. But Erik Rasmussen has beaten me to it (via Blogging Pro). It might look like just another text widget, but it executes the PHP code typed within it. [Continue]
Widgets are getting an official approval (via Steve Rubel) from W3C. This is an attempt of standardising the widgets specification before it gets too late. This document describes widgets. [Continue]
I had not thought a lot about the impact of widgets in Wordpress until I started developing this theme. The Advantage Well, let me first put down the advantage of widgets, as I see them. Wordpress provides a neat drag and drop interface to include and adjust widgets in the sidebars. [Continue]
Since I have moved I have been gathering all the nuts and bolts to construct this blog. It was fun earlier to try out all the plugins and develop my own theme, but it started eating up my time in which I could have actually written. I will not fiddle with the blog setup any more. [Continue]
WP-Quotes is a simple yet elegant Wordpress plugin for displaying quotes, including random quotes. Random Quote Widget is a Wordpress widget built on this plugin to comply with the new widget framework provided by Wordpress. The widget lets you customize its title and spews out a friendly error message if the WP-Quotes plugin is not installed or activated. [Continue]
Yes, I love it! A while back I had written about some tips to use the Link Categories to group the links and order them in the sidebar. The biggest problem was that most of the themes ordered the link categories alphabetically. [Continue]