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	<title>James Wilson --blog &#187; Widget-A-Day</title>
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		<title>Widget A Day: Take 2</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2008/10/30/widget-a-day-take-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#039;m bored, and some of my old widgets have had some feature requests, so I think I&#039;ll try Widget A Day again. I&#039;m going for at least 14 widgets, so 2 weeks, some being updated versions of the older ones. 
It would most likely start the beginning of next week. (Edit- not happening this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I&#039;m bored, and some of my old widgets have had some feature requests, so I think I&#039;ll try <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget A Day</a> again. I&#039;m going for at least 14 widgets, so 2 weeks, some being updated versions of the older ones. </p>
<p>It would most likely start the beginning of next week. (Edit- not happening this week, but should be next week)</p>
<p>If you have requests or ideas, post them here. I need them to be able to do this.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Reddit Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/06/01/wordpress-reddit-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/06/01/wordpress-reddit-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Number 8 in Widget-A-Day is a reddit widget.
It&#039;ll display your latest liked items on reddit.com. You can edit the display, count, and username.
Not much of widget (can be kinda done via the RSS widget), but it&#039;ll be the closer in Widget-A-Day. I might have one on Saturday, but there&#039;s no guarantee. It&#039;s been fun. Hopefully [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number 8 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a reddit widget.</p>
<p>It&#039;ll display your latest liked items on reddit.com. You can edit the display, count, and username.</p>
<p>Not much of widget (can be kinda done via the RSS widget), but it&#039;ll be the closer in Widget-A-Day. I might have one on Saturday, but there&#039;s no guarantee. It&#039;s been fun. Hopefully someone has found these useful. I&#039;ll do it again sometime. If you have any problems, suggestions, or whatever, <a href="/contact/">let me know</a></p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/reddit-widget.zip">Download reddit.zip</a></b></p>
<p><b>SVN Checkout</b><br />
<code>svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/reddit-widget/trunk</code></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/reddit1cropped.png' alt='reddit1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/reddit2cropped.png' alt='reddit2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
<li>PHP 4.3.0 or greater (needed for function <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">file_get_contents</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/reddit-widget.zip">reddit.zip</a></li>
<li>Extract and upload reddit.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable reddit Widget in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place reddit in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your username</li>
</ol>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Displays your latest liked items (on reddit.com)</li>
<li>Completely customizable display</li>
<li>Caching for large traffic sites</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="formatting"></a></p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p>There are 3 parts needed to format the output.<br />
<br />
The first part, called items start in the admin panel, is the first part of the widget after the title. For the default formatting, this is just <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code>.<br />
<br />
The second part, called items end, is the ending of the widget. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;/ul&gt;<br />
&lt;a href="%profile%" style="float:right;"&gt;%username%&lt;/a&gt;<br />
</code><br />
<br />
The third part is what is called for each item. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;li style="list-style-type: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="%link%"&gt;%title%&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="%more%"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;</code></p>
<p>The premise of calling each value is this:</p>
<ol>
<li>start</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>&#8230;</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>end</li>
</ol>
<p>The formatting for items is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%title%</b> &#8211; Title of the item</li>
<li><b>%link%</b> &#8211; Link to the item</li>
<li><b>%desc%</b> &#8211; Description of the item &#8211; Just [link] [more] links</li>
<li><b>%date%</b> &#8211; Date the item was submitted (ISO)</li>
<li><b>%more%</b> &#8211; More link &#8211; The link to the comments</li>
<li><b>%number%</b> &#8211; The number of the current item</li>
</ul>
<p>The formatting for start and end is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%username%</b> &#8211; Your username</li>
<li><b>%profile%</b> &#8211; Link to your profile</li>
<li><b>%rss%</b> &#8211; Link to your profile&#039;s RSS feed</li>
<li><b>%count%</b> &#8211; Number of items shown</li>
</ul>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/reddit-widget.zip">Download reddit.zip</a></b></p>
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		<title>WordPress YouTube Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-youtube-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-youtube-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 23:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Number 7 in Widget-A-Day is a YouTube widget.
It&#039;ll display a YouTube video in the sidebar. Just enter the URL of the video, and it&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number 7 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a YouTube widget.</p>
<p>It&#039;ll display a YouTube video in the sidebar. Just enter the URL of the video, and it&#039;ll show in the sidebar. You can change the width and height, and make it autoplay or not.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/youtube-widget.zip">Download youtube.zip</a></b></p>
<p><b>SVN Checkout</b><br />
<code>svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/youtube-widget/trunk</code></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/youtbe1cropped.png' alt='youtbe1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/youtube2cropped.png' alt='youtube2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/youtube-widget.zip">youtube.zip</a></li>
<li>Extract and upload youtube.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable YouTube Widget in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place YouTube in the sidebar, and edit it to enter the YouTube URL, not the embed code</li>
</ol>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/youtube-widget.zip">Download youtube.zip</a></b></p>
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		<title>WordPress Digg Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-digg-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-digg-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 05:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/31/wordpress-digg-widget/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the lateness. Went out, and it wasn&#039;t working by the time I left.
Anyways, number 6 in Widget-A-Day is a Digg widget. It&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry for the lateness. Went out, and it wasn&#039;t working by the time I left.</p>
<p>Anyways, number 6 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a Digg widget. It&#039;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 <a href="#formatting">formatting</a> for more information.</p>
<p><b>Update</b>: If you downloaded this before 6 CST on May 31, the caching system wouldn&#039;t work. Just redownload the file, and it&#039;ll work or just remove <code>AND FALSE</code> on line 39.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.zip">Download digg.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.tar.gz">digg.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/digg1cropped.png' alt='digg1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/digg2cropped.png' alt='digg2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
<li>PHP 4.3.0 or greater (needed for function <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">file_get_contents</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.zip">digg.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.tar.gz">gz</a>)</li>
<li>Extract and upload digg.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable Digg Widget in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place digg in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your username</li>
</ol>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Displays your latest dugg items from <a href="http://digg.com">Digg</a></li>
<li>Completely customizable display</li>
<li>Caching for large traffic sites</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="formatting"></a></p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p>There are 3 parts needed to format the output.<br />
<br />
The first part, called items start in the admin panel, is the first part of the widget after the title. For the default formatting, this is just <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code>.<br />
<br />
The second part, called items end, is the ending of the widget. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;/ul&gt;<br />
&lt;a href="%profilelink%" style="float:right;"&gt;%username%&lt;/a&gt;<br />
</code><br />
<br />
The third part is what is called for each item. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;li style="list-style-type: none;"&#038;gt&lt;a href="%link%"&gt;%title% (%diggs%)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;</code></p>
<p>The premise of calling each value is this:</p>
<ol>
<li>start</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>&#8230;</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>end</li>
</ol>
<p>The formatting for items is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%title%</b> &#8211; Title of the item</li>
<li><b>%link%</b> &#8211; Link to the item</li>
<li><b>%desc%</b> &#8211; Description of the item</li>
<li><b>%date%</b> &#8211; Date the item was submitted (in GMT)</li>
<li><b>%category%</b> &#8211; Category of the item</li>
<li><b>%diggs%</b> &#8211; Number of diggs the item has</li>
<li><b>%comments%</b> &#8211; Number of comments the item has</li>
<li><b>%user%</b> &#8211; User name of the submitter</li>
<li><b>%userimage%</b> &#8211; Link to the submitter&#039;s icon</li>
<li><b>%number%</b> &#8211; The number of the current item</li>
</ul>
<p>The formatting for start and end is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%username%</b> &#8211; Your username</li>
<li><b>%profile%</b> &#8211; Link to your profile</li>
<li><b>%rss%</b> &#8211; Link to your profile&#039;s RSS feed</li>
<li><b>%count%</b> &#8211; Number of items shown</li>
</ul>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.zip">Download digg.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/digg.tar.gz">digg.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
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		<title>The Widgets in Action</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/29/the-widgets-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/29/the-widgets-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 00:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;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&#039;m all ears. Tomorrow&#039;s might be really lame if I don&#039;t get any. Comment or contact me.
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#039;ve set up a <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/widgettest/">test blog</a> to display the widgets in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a>.</p>
<p>Check it out at <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/widgettest/">http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/widgettest/</a></p>
<p>Also, if anyone has any suggestions for widgets, I&#039;m all ears. Tomorrow&#039;s might be really lame if I don&#039;t get any. Comment or <a href="/contact/">contact me</a>.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Weather Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/29/wordpress-weather-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/29/wordpress-weather-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 23:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Number 5 in Widget-A-Day is a Weather widget. 
It isn&#039;t too fanciful. It displays the current condition, temperature, and the feels like temperature. It uses weather.com&#039;s xoap api to retrieve the information. I&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number 5 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a Weather widget. </p>
<p>It isn&#039;t too fanciful. It displays the current condition, temperature, and the feels like temperature. It uses <a href="http://www.weather.com">weather.com</a>&#039;s xoap api to retrieve the information. I&#039;ll probably come back to this and make it better.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/weather-widget.zip">Download weather.zip</a></b></p>
<p><b>SVN Checkout</b><br />
<code>svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/weather-widget/trunk</code></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/weather1cropped.png' alt='weather1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/weather2cropped.png' alt='weather2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
<li>PHP 4.3.0 or greater (needed for function <a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">file_get_contents</a>)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/weather-widget.zip">weather.zip</a></li>
<li>Extract and upload weather.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable Weather Widget in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place Weather in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your location</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="location"></a></p>
<h3>Location</h3>
<p>The location can either be a zip code for US users or the locid. To find the locid, you can do a search using <code>http://xoap.weather.com/search/search?where=<b>[search parameters]</b></code>.This will return an XML file with search results and their corresponding locid&#039;s.</p>
<p>You can also find it out by the <a href="http://www.weather.com">Weather.com website</a>. After searching for and selecting you city, you will be sent to a url that will look something like, <code>http://www.weather.com/outlook/driving/interstate/local/<b>USTX0617</b>?from=search_city</code>, where <b>USTX0617</b> is the locid.</p>
<p><a name="image"></a></p>
<h3>Image Hosting</h3>
<p>I&#039;ve provided the images used and provided by weather.com <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/weatherimages.tar.gz">here</a>. If you want to host your own images, extract and upload the files, then, in the admin panel, edit the &#039;Image Location&#039; field to point to your directory of images. Make sure to have the trailing slash.</p>
<p>If you don&#039;t use your own images, you are free to use the ones that I&#039;ve hosted, which are located at http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/weatherimages/</p>
<h3>Editting display</h3>
<p>You can edit &#039;Widget Formatting&#039; to change how the info is displayed. To access the variables, use this formatting: </p>
<ul>
<li><b>%loc%</b> &#8211; Location</li>
<li><b>%temp%</b> &#8211; Current temperature</li>
<li><b>%feels%</b> &#8211; Feels like temperature</li>
<li><b>%icon%</b> &#8211; The icon referring to the current weather. This is just a number</li>
<li><b>%iconhref%</b> &#8211; The location of the image with your set image location at the front</li>
<li><b>%attribution%</b> &#8211; The link supposedly required to be displayed. <a href="http://www.weather.com/?prod=xoap&#038;par=">Weather data provided by weather.com&reg;</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The default formatting is:<br />
<code><br />
&lt;img src="%iconhref%" alt="%cond%" style="float:right;" /&gt;<br />
%loc%&lt;br /&gt;<br />
&lt;span style="font-size: 150%;"&gt;%temp% &deg;F&lt;/span&gt;<br />
(%feels% &deg;F)&lt;br /&gt;<br />
&lt;span style="font-size: 65%; float: right;"&gt;%attribution%&lt;/a&gt;<br />
</code></p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/weather-widget.zip">Download weather.zip</a></b></p>
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		<title>Sorry, no widget today</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/28/sorry-no-widget-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 01:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today was supposed to be the &#034;official&#034; start of Widget-A-Day, but today just hasn&#039;t been a good day. I didn&#039;t have enough sleep, felt like crap, multiple computer problems, and it&#039;s been raining all day. Needless to say, I wasn&#039;t able to write a widget. I had an idea for it, and know how to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today was supposed to be the &#034;official&#034; start of <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a>, but today just hasn&#039;t been a good day. I didn&#039;t have enough sleep, felt like crap, multiple computer problems, and it&#039;s been raining all day. Needless to say, I wasn&#039;t able to write a widget. I had an idea for it, and know how to write, just wasn&#039;t able to. </p>
<p>Don&#039;t worry, I&#039;ll release 2 on one day or something. Plus, I&#039;ve already made 4 before the &#034;official&#034; start.</p>
<p>I&#039;ll have one tomorrow, so keep checking. I usually release them at about 7-8 PM eastern.</p>
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		<title>WordPress Countdown Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/27/wordpress-countdown-widget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 23:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my birthday. Woo! So that means, I&#039;m not doing anything fancy, so without further ado
Number 4 in Widget-A-Day is a countdown widget.
It&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today is my birthday. Woo! So that means, I&#039;m not doing anything fancy, so without further ado</p>
<p>Number 4 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a countdown widget.</p>
<p>It&#039;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 supposed to be? Yes. Why not? Because I&#039;m lazy.</p>
<p><b>Update</b>: By request, added a <a href="#comment-54">new version</a></p>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.zip">Download countdown.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.tar.gz">countdown.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown1cropped.png' alt='countdown1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown2cropped.png' alt='countdown2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.zip">countdown.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.tar.gz">gz</a>)</li>
<li>Extract and upload countdown.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable Countdown Widget in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place Countdown in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your the time and name</li>
</ol>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.zip">Download countdown.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/countdown.tar.gz">countdown.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
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		<title>WordPress Google Reader Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/26/wordpress-google-reader-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/26/wordpress-google-reader-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2007 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WordPress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number 3 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a Google Reader widget.</p>
<p>This widget will display your latest shared stories. You can change the amount of stories to display and how to display them.</p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-reader-widget.zip">Download googlereader.zip</a></b></p>
<p>Default display:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/googreader1cropped.png' alt='googreader1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/googreader2cropped.png' alt='googreader2cropped.png' /></p>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-reader-widget.zip">Download googlereader.zip</a></b></p>
<p><b>SVN Checkout</b><br />
<code>svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/google-reader-widget/trunk</code></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">file_get_contents</a> (PHP 4.3.0 or greater) or cURL</li>
<li><a href="#user-id">Your Google Reader User ID</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-reader-widget.zip">googlereader.zip</a></li>
<li>Extract and upload googlereader.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable Google Reader in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place Google Reader in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your <a href="#user-id">user id</a></li>
</ol>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Displays your latest shared items from Google Reader</li>
<li>Completely customizable display</li>
<li>Caching for large traffic sites</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="user-id"></a><br />
<h3>User ID</h3>
<p>In order to get your shares, you need to know your user id according to Google Reader. This can be found by going to the &#039;Shared Items&#039; link, and copying the 20 digit number at the end of your shared items link.</p>
<p>So something like:<br />
<code>http://www.google.com/reader/shared/<b>02774557510273097991</b></code><br />
Where <code>02774557510273097991</code> would be my user id.</p>
<h3>Formatting</h3>
<p>There are 3 parts needed to format the output.</p>
<p>The first part, called items start in the admin panel, is the first part of the widget after the title. For the default formatting, this is just <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code>.</p>
<p>The second part, called items end, is the ending of the widget. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;/ul&gt;<br />
&lt;a href="%googlereader%" style="float:right;"&gt;Shared Items&lt;/a&gt;<br />
</code></p>
<p>The third part is what is called for each item. By default, this is:<br />
<code>&lt;li style="list-style-type: none;"&gt;&lt;a href="%link%"&gt;%title%&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;</code></p>
<p>The premise of calling each value is this:</p>
<ol>
<li>start</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>&#8230;</li>
<li>item</li>
<li>end</li>
</ol>
<p>The formatting for items is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%link%</b> &#8211; Link to the item</li>
<li><b>%title%</b> &#8211; Title of the item</li>
<li><b>%site%</b> &#8211; The title of the site the item is from</li>
<li><b>%sitelink%</b> &#8211; The link to the site the item is from</li>
<li><b>%number%</b> &#8211; The number of the current item</li>
<li><b>%comment%</b> &#8211; The comment (note) made when sharing an item</li>
</ul>
<p>The formatting for start and end is:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>%googlereader%</b> &#8211; Link to your Google Reader shared page</li>
<li><b>%count%</b> &#8211; Number of items shown</li>
</ul>
<p><b><a href="http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/google-reader-widget.zip">Download googlereader.zip</a></b></p>
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		<title>WordPress Last.fm Widget Widget</title>
		<link>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/25/wordpress-lastfm-widget-widget/</link>
		<comments>http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/2007/05/25/wordpress-lastfm-widget-widget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 23:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wilson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scripts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widget-A-Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widgets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[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&#039;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Number 2 in <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/category/widget-a-day/">Widget-A-Day</a> is a widget for the <a href="http://last.fm/widgets/">last.fm widgets</a>.</p>
<p>It can show the chart of your recent tracks, top tracks, and top artists (weekly tracks and artists don&#039;t work currently since the value varies throughout). You can also choose between red, blue, black, and green. </p>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.zip">Download lastfm.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.tar.gz">lastfm.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
<p>Here is the default view:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm1cropped.png' alt='lastfm1cropped.png' /></p>
<p>Here is the admin panel:<br />
<img src='http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm2cropped.png' alt='lastfm2cropped.png' /></p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.2 or 2.0.x/2.1.x with <a href="http://automattic.com/code/widgets/">WordPress Widgets</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Installation</h3>
<ol>
<li>Download <a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.zip">lastfm.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.tar.gz">gz</a>)</li>
<li>Extract and upload lastfm.php to the plugins/ directory</li>
<li>Enable Last.fm Widget &#8211; New Style in the Plugin admin panel</li>
<li>In widget admin panel, place Last.fm in the sidebar, and edit it to enter your username</li>
</ol>
<p><b><a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.zip">Download lastfm.zip</a> (<a href="http://ja.meswilson.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/lastfm.tar.gz">lastfm.tar.gz</a>)</b></p>
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