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Best Widgets for your Wordpress Blog
By admin | May 17, 2007
One of the niftiest things I discovered when I started developing this blog was sidebar widgets. Widgets are a fun, easy way to control the items in your sidebar. (or sidebars). For the version of Wordpress that I downloaded (V2.1 ), I had to download Sidebar Widgets – by Automatic, Inc. It’s an easy plugin to install, and it comes with a few easy to use widgets. Luckily, it is alot like Wordpress in that it is open for others to write great widgets to incorporate. Sidebar Widgets are even easier for those using the latest version of Wordpress (V2.2), sidebar widgets are included! Here are a few of the best Widgets that I have found:
Breukies Pages Widget – I came up with two problems with the page links in my sidebar. First, I wanted to create a few pages for administrative purposes that did not show up in my sidebar. It seemed simple, and I did find a few solutions offered by digging into the code, but that is no fun and tends to not translate from theme to theme. Second, I wanted to control the order of my pages.
Both of these problems were solved with Breukies Pages Widget. To control the order, you need to change the ID numbers of your pages under the manage section. Then you can select in the widget to control the order by ID, ascending or descending.
Adsense Manager – This great widget is a nice alternative to simply pasting google adsense code into a text box. Adsense Manager allows you to configure how you want the Adsense ad to look (color, shape, etc.) and it creates your Adsense ad block for you. It is nice not to have to keep bouncing back and fourth between the Google Adsense site and your blog page.
Tag Cloud Widget for Ultimate Tag Warrior – If you use Ultimate Tag Warrior to put tags in your post, this widget allows you to easily place them in your sidebar.
Topics: Blogging | 2 Comments »
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