Archive for May 2007

WordPress YouTube Widget

Number 7 in Widget-A-Day is a YouTube widget.
It'll display a YouTube video in the sidebar. Just enter the URL of the video, and it'll show in the sidebar. You can change the width and height, and make it autoplay or not.
Download youtube.zip
SVN Checkout
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/youtube-widget/trunk
Default display:

Admin panel:

Requirements

WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with WordPress Widgets

Installation

Download youtube.zip
Extract and [...]

Google Reader, That's It?

Google released their new Google Gears app, which allows you to use some of their apps offline.
Neat right? Too bad it currently only works with Google Reader. And too bad it working with Google Reader kinda sucks.
In order to get it to work, you have to install Google Gears, that's a given. Once it's installed, [...]

WordPress Digg Widget

Sorry for the lateness. Went out, and it wasn't working by the time I left.
Anyways, number 6 in Widget-A-Day is a Digg widget. It'll display your latest dugg stories and the number of diggs the story has. It can be customized to include just about all the information the RSS feeds gives. Check out formatting [...]

The Widgets in Action

I've set up a test blog to display the widgets in Widget-A-Day.
Check it out at http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/widgettest/
Also, if anyone has any suggestions for widgets, I'm all ears. Tomorrow's might be really lame if I don't get any. Comment or contact me.

WordPress Weather Widget

Number 5 in Widget-A-Day is a Weather widget.
It isn't too fanciful. It displays the current condition, temperature, and the feels like temperature. It uses weather.com's xoap api to retrieve the information. I'll probably come back to this and make it better.
Download weather.zip
SVN Checkout
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/weather-widget/trunk
Default display:

Admin panel:

Requirements

WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with WordPress Widgets
PHP 4.3.0 [...]

Sorry, no widget today

Today was supposed to be the "official" start of Widget-A-Day, but today just hasn't been a good day. I didn't have enough sleep, felt like crap, multiple computer problems, and it's been raining all day. Needless to say, I wasn't able to write a widget. I had an idea for it, and know how to [...]

WordPress Countdown Widget

Today is my birthday. Woo! So that means, I'm not doing anything fancy, so without further ado
Number 4 in Widget-A-Day is a countdown widget.
It'll display the amount of time until a certain event, or if it passed, how long ago it was. Lame? Yes. Do I care? Not really. Is there Javascript? No. Was there [...]

WordPress Google Reader Widget

Number 3 in Widget-A-Day is a Google Reader widget.
This widget will display your latest shared stories. You can change the amount of stories to display and how to display them.
Download googlereader.zip
Default display:

Admin panel:

Download googlereader.zip
SVN Checkout
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/google-reader-widget/trunk
Requirements

WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with WordPress Widgets
file_get_contents (PHP 4.3.0 or greater) or cURL
Your Google Reader User ID

Installation

Download googlereader.zip
Extract and [...]

WordPress Last.fm Widget Widget

Number 2 in Widget-A-Day is a widget for the last.fm widgets.
It can show the chart of your recent tracks, top tracks, and top artists (weekly tracks and artists don't work currently since the value varies throughout). You can also choose between red, blue, black, and green.
Download lastfm.zip (lastfm.tar.gz)
Here is the default view:

Here is the [...]

Compete WordPress Widget

Compete released it's API today, so I decided to make a widget for WordPress using it.
Download compete.zip
SVN Checkout
svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/compete-widget/trunk
This adds a link, your current rank, the amount of visitors, and your rank image to the sidebar.
By default, it looks like:

In the widget admin panel, you can completely edit the title, your api key, your [...]