This plugin will provide a widget that allows you to display a list of terms from any custom (or built-in) taxonomy with a list of recent posts filed in each term. The terms are displayed in a list with each term’s posts shown in a nested list.
This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display your latest comments in any widgetized sidebar. It includes the abilities to display author gravatars, post titles, comment excerpts, human readable time formats, and more.
The Farbtastic Color Picker is a fantastic tool for developers and designers to utilize as a way to give their plugin (or theme) users an extra level of control. With Farbtastic, we can allow our users to change the colors of certain elements, such as the background color of our widget, by using an elegant…
This plugin provides an advanced widget that allows you to display your blog authors in any widgetized sidebar. It includes the abilities to display author gravatars, author URLS, post counts, and bios.
The other day a user posted a question on the WordPress Stack Exchange about how to display a calendar of your site’s custom post types, much like the default WP Calendar widget. After a quick google search, I found a function written by Jennifer Dodd that did exactly this. The user who asked the question…
Creating WordPress widgets, from simple to advanced, is not a very difficult task, though it can be hard to get into developing them if you do not have the right tools. This tutorial, written at WP Roots, will give you everything you need, including an example, to begin writing advanced WordPress Widgets. This entry is…
While writing up a tutorial for the upcoming WP Roots.com, I put together this quick widget that can be used to display a list of your blog authors, including gravatars and post counts.
Better Recent Posts Widget Pro provides a greatly enhanced recent posts widget. The default recent posts widget that comes with WordPress offers almost zero control over which posts are displayed, or how they are displayed. This widget fixes that.
This next part in our Working with Widgets Series is going to show you how to create a simple recent posts widget, much like my Better Recent Posts Widget plugin, though it will be even simpler. The goal of this tutorial will be to demonstrate a very useful technique that you can use in countless…
Widget Ninja is a new premium plugin from the Web Factory, available at Code Canyon.net. It provides a method for users to control in exactly which environment their widgets appear.
In this tutorial I’m going to walk you through how to create a simple widget to list categories, and custom taxonomies, in your sidebar. The final result will be a complete plugin that you can drop into your wp-plugins folder and activate like any other plugin. The code for this widget will be based entirely…
Widgets are utilized by tons of WordPress themes and plugins as a way to display customized content in various locations, and they’re relatively easy to create, as long as you have the appropriate resources. The code below will give you everything you need to make extensive and advanced widgets that can do anything you want.…
