Ever wanted to add more widget-capable sections to your WordPress theme? This article shows you how very simple it is to create an unlimited number of widget-capable areas in your theme and get them to output the way you want them to. No development knowledge required: copy & paste examples included!
In my previous post, I decided I would share my rough methodology on how I went about sprucing up my search widget in WordPress. If you’re just tuning in, here’s a quick update on what I described in The Making of a Not-So-Boring Search/RSS Widget:
We downloaded some cool Photoshop brushes featured in Smashing Magazine, [...]
Maintaining your own site can be a real chore. That’s one of the many reasons why I like WordPress so much: it makes updating and adding new content easy.
But what about non-content updates? I’m talking about tweaking something that doesn’t look exactly the way you’d like it to visually. A lot of people seem to [...]
I wrote a post the other day detailing my adventures with and subsequent complaints of Pandora’s feed/widget creation. However, at the end of it all, I was victorious and the proud new owner of a customized widget showing my bookmarked songs and their album covers…or so I thought.
The nasty surprise
Naturally after working with something like [...]
One of the things that I’ve been dying to get up and running on this site is a live feed to my bookmarked songs on Pandora. I’ve always wanted something that displays a little album art, because I think that adds extra flair to what is otherwise just additional bits of boring data. However, little [...]
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