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Widget A Day: Take 2

Since I'm bored, and some of my old widgets have had some feature requests, so I think I'll try Widget A Day again. I'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 [...]

Paintball Headlines Theme

I said I would post the theme for headlines when I thought it was acceptable. There are still problems, but whatever.
Anyways, this theme is based upon this tutorial theme, but changed to have multiple author support, support tags and categories, and be a double right column instead of a column on both sides. There are [...]

GSoC 2008 Proposal : Wordpress Upgrader

My proposal for Google Summer of Code is a Wordpress Updater.
WordPress currently advertises how easy it is to install with its patented* 5 minute install. Upgrade is also supposedly really easy. Just delete all you old WordPress files, upload the new ones, and go to upgrade.php. In reality, this is more complicated than it [...]

Added Plugins To Wordpress.org

I've added most of my widgets from Widget A Day. This is to enable update checking and updating in newer versions of Wordpress.
For some reason, you have to have the plugin uploaded to wordpress.org to be able for Wordpress to check if it's out of date. Not sure why they couldn't let people add an [...]

WordPress YouTube Sidebar Video Plugin

This is a plugin based on the YouTube widget. It'll display a YouTube video, most likely in your sidebar, by calling the youtube function which you can specify the url, width, height, and if it'll autoplay. It's not much, at all, but meh.
Download youtube-plugin.zip (youtube-plugin.tar.gz)
This plugin is one function called youtube that will display a [...]

No Sponsored Links in Themes? Fine.

Weblog Tools now says it won't show sponsored themes. That's fine. I just thought, good for them, when I read it. Then ol' Matt nuts everywhere and jumps on the bandwagon. Then ol' shoey says fuck matt. And now I've had to form an opinion about this. Dammit. I didn't feel like doing that today.
All [...]

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 [...]