I have written a couple of handy widgets for WordPress, and figure it’s probably time I at least make them available to people. You can see each of these widgets running on this blog’s sidebar right now.
I originally wrote these quite a while back, but just updated them and added the Tags drop-down to go with WordPress’s 2.3 release.
If you get the files individually, rename them to a .php extension.
Upload the files to your wp-content/plugins/widgets directory. Activate them in the Plugins section and then you can move them around in your widget-aware theme under Presentation / Widgets. Enjoy.
If you examine the code, each drop-down widget has it’s own CSS block-level div id that you can customize in your theme’s style.css, if you feel so inclined.
Note: With the release of WordPress 2.5, the Archives and Categories have been deprecated. These drop-down controls are now built in to WordPress. There is a tag cloud available, but not a drop-down control, so I will continue to maintain it.
Also, given that WordPress 2.5’s links continue to not adhere to XHTML 1.0 Strict standards, I have made my “strict links” widget available. Since the get_links() has also been deprecated, this file uses the new wp_list_bookmarks() call. You will probably need to edit the file for it to work on your site.
strict_links.txt. Rename as .php and dump in your widgets directory as usual.
2 Responses to “WordPress Widgets”
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Quoth Bobby
July 19th, 2008 at 4:20 am I’ve used Drop-down Tags with my blog. I think you the only one who made this drop-down tags plugin. Very nice indeed. |
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Quoth Webmonster
July 26th, 2008 at 1:42 am You’re welcome! I’m glad it’s been helpful to you and hope other people find it useful as well. |
