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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]