Themes that use widgets, and the widgets you can use
WordPress Widgets (WPW) is a plugin designed to provide a simple way to arrange the various elements of your sidebar content without having to change any code. Widget Themes and Widgets>> This...
View ArticleCustom Google Search Results Page on Your WordPress with Adsense Deluxe
Create a custom Google search results page within your WordPress blog with widgets and this plugin. Custom Google Search Results Page on Your WordPress with Adsense Deluxe>> This post was...
View ArticleLinkedInABox
LinkedInABox™ is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account. LinkedInABox>> This post was...
View ArticleInserting editable text in the sidebar – part II: Widgets
In an earlier post, I wrote about my quest to find a way to easily allow users to modify text in the sidebar of a site I was creating. After trying a few different options, I happily settled on the...
View ArticleShare your Shared items from Google Reader in your blog
A little while ago one of the commenters here asked if I knew how to display shared items from Google Reader in a blog, such as in the sidebar. David Paul Robinson explains how to put a “clip” on your...
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Interview with Yedda’s head of Community Marketing about new Feedflare...
Yedda is an Israeli start up with a web-based questions and answer service that is generally agreed to rival that of Yahoo Answers. Yedda’s technology powers many independent Q&A services as well,...
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Display your web identity with the ShowYourself Widget
The challenge is coordinating all of the places that we appear on the web. Previously we discussed possible ways to combine your blog with facebook. You could also use add the ShowYourself Widget to...
View ArticleEasily add unwidgetized WordPress plugins to widgetized sidebar with Custom...
One of the reasons I hesitated to use widgets is because there are many useful plugins that aren’t widgets and demand that you add a snippet of code to your sidebar, something you can’t really do with...
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How to rename widgetized sidebars in WordPress
You can manage multiple sidebar widgets in WordPress. To do so, you go to the Widgets page in the Admin, and select the Sidebar you want to manage. If you have 1 widgetized sidebar, the name “Sidebar...
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HOWTO: Add a custom style to any WordPress widget with a plugin
The Problem On a WordPress site that we recently built, there were several text widgets in use – one for About Us, one for a Facebook Social Plugin, and one for a newsletter signup form. The problem...
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