WordPress.com Introduce Sidebar Widgets
Filed in: Weblog, WordPress — March 14th, 2006
The WordPress widget is not a Mac OS X widget. It is widget for WordPress themes. WordPress.com member can get it in their WordPress admin panels. Under “Presentation”, you will see an extra “Sidebar Editor” tab.
What does WordPress widgets do?
With WordPress widgets, you can easily change the sidebar elements and sort them. Besides some common sidebar elements, now you can add rss feeds, del.icio.us bookmark, and your own text into the sidebar.
It is completely done in the WordPress admin, no file editing needed (which is what we are doing now).
My two cents
WordPress widget is cool! I wish the API will be ported to WordPress soon!
[via Lorelle on WordPress]
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March 15th, 2006 at 9:00 am
yea, word press gadget is cool. It is very easy manage plugin. Wanted to try out too.
March 16th, 2006 at 11:39 am
yes it cool and easy to use even for a noob like me. can add lots of things also easy to navigate. wish i could add adsense there.
March 17th, 2006 at 12:03 am
I believe the widgets are for only Wordpress.com blogs and not wordpress.org blogs…Does wordpress.co have a facility to insert adsense?
March 17th, 2006 at 1:42 am
No, wordpress.com does not support template editing yet, therefore we can’t add adsense code on it.
March 30th, 2006 at 8:03 pm
[...] Good ideas never come alone. Wordpress released a few days ago also SiderBar widgets as well as APIs for developers to build new items which is quite discussed. The easiness of integration in a blog is comparable to Typepad. One thing I liked there, is the possibility in a nice Ajax interface to edit your own text and place it in the side bar. The widget catalog (recent comments/ feed/ Flickr / Delicious and others) is not huge yet, but it sure will be soon. More here and there. [...]
March 30th, 2006 at 10:36 pm
[...] WP hack: Widgetizing Themes Modify your themes to work with the cool Wordpress.com widgets for the sidebar. Explanation of widgets on the Automattic page. Technorati Tags: wordpress widgets [...]
March 31st, 2006 at 7:11 pm
[...] Les bonnes idées n’arrivant jamais seules Wordpress a aussi lancé il y a quelques jours des Widgets pour barre latérale en plus d’APIs pour les développeurs souhaitant proposer de nouveaux services à intégrer. La facilité de manipulation est comparable à celle de Typepad. Une des fonctionnalités que j’ai bien aimée est la possibilité dans une interface en Ajax d’éditer son propre texte et le publier dans la barre latérale. Le Catalogue en revanche n’est pas encore énorme (commentaires récents/ feed/ Flickr / Delicious et autres) mais nous imaginons que cela changera bientôt. On en parle ici et là et dans toute la blogoshere. [...]