Here’s a plugin complete with a widget that lets the site admin pick and choose which posts to feature. A backend menu is created where the admin can input a sitewide feed. In MU, the menu item is under site Admin, and in regular WordPress, it’s under Appearance. We recommend using this in...

Today’s post brings you a little goodie. I looked for this before and couldn’t find one. Basically, it’s pretty simple: we used a function included with the List All plugin, and made it a widget with the new widget class for 2.8. New Members Widget (171) (download link now fixed, sorry!) Available...

I wrote the original login widget 2-3 years ago. The reason I wrote it was that quite a few of our bloggers on homeschool journal had/have their comments set to user must be logged in to comment. The default flow for a commenter (using the default links) in that situation is Click the login link &...

Creating a reusable widget requires a bit more code than a one time use widget. I’ll walk you through the code that you need to add/change to make a widget reusable. A term that I’m going to use in the tutorial is instance. If you add 5 of this widget to your sidebars, then you have 5 instances...

When I first had the idea for this widget, it was because my mom asked for it. I had set her up with her own blog, and since she is new to blogging in general (but not computers thankfully), the only thing she had trouble doing was something a lot of new users struggle with. Bling. And by bling I mean...

Chances are, you’re running a WPMU in some sort of niche. On top of that, you probably have some users who want to place particular javascript in a text widget. By default, this gets stripped out. What to do? Why, build a widget for them, of course! Here’s an incredibly simple BASIC widget...