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We’ve added voice feedback to lates version of our site (not quite up yet), but is you’re in a hurry to call us. You can give it a try here:

This is powered by Google Voice. I’m not sure if you can get in on the service yet unless you’re along time user of Grand Central as I am, but it’s a cool update of the old Grand Central Service.

A new WordPress Widgets API is in development for WordPress 2.8. Well it’s probaby a stratch to called it an API. It’s really just a new class called WP_Widget. It was inspired by the MultiWidget Class, it will handle all the multi-widget functions and hooks to implement a multi-widget Plugin, giving developers an easier process to extend their WordPress Plugins with Widget functionality. The main advantages here seem to be that they are using a proper class and through of bit of standard Object Oriented magic make it much easier to have a widget that is able to have multiple instances. This will mean that you can have more than one of same widget at a time and each can have it’s own values.

The WordPress Development team has announced that they are converting all default WordPress Widgets to work with the new Widgets API.

Lester Chan looks like he modifed his Polls widget with the new WP_Widget Class.  It’s always helpful to have a real world example to look at. His example does inlcude the form() and update() methods which our generated code does not at this time. It might be a bit trick to generate that stuff, but we’re looking into the best approach.

It looks like we’ll have to wait until april for the new Widget API.

WordPress News: iPhones Up, WordPress Widgets API, 2.8 Delayed, International WordPress.tv, and More | The Blog Herald.

I just released version 0.06. There are two New features:

1. Quick code generator

I tried to make something available to users that are not ready to sign-up for an account yet. I hope it enough for them to get more interested and not just dismiss it as to very simple tool.

2. WordPress 2.8 code generator option

WordPress 2.8 is adding a whole new way of supporting widgets with the new WP_Widget class. I’ve took a stab at creating a generator for this way of doing things as well. That’s one of the great things about having a generator like this is that now you can generate your Widget in both ways. You don’t have to figure out each way.

I’m still having a tough time getting the details of what the WordPress code wants from a plugin. For example here’s the notes for parameters to the constructor of the WP_Widget class.

var $id_base;       // Root id for all widgets of this type.
var $name;          // Name for this widget type.

What is a widget type exactly? What do you want it to be? What name space is it in?

I guess this is why I created this service in the first place. If was easy to figure out than I wouldn’t have wanted to create a tool that lets me easily take care of all the details from me. All I have to do is figure it all out once. And for you it should just work.

Plus few other tweaks where added here and there in these release.

I’m adding support for the new WP_Widget class that will be contained in Wordpress 2.8. I hope these changes don’t break a ton of widgets, but if the changes in WordPress do cause problems maybe this site will be of some help in upgrading widgets.

I’m working on an instant wordpress widget builder. I’ve stripped away most of the options and allow people to use it without logging in. This will give people an idea of how the widget builder works, but does not have all the features you get when you have an account and are logged in. Most significantly you can go back and edit your widget. Also you won’t be able to regenerate you widget if we make improvements to the generator. The generator create a new widget every time it runs so if we upgrade our system your widgets can easily but updated.

I found a small wordpress widget tutorial that gives you an idea of where the information widget gets displayed in the plugin management page. Sometimes it’s not that intuitive where your widget information will be displayed so this should help you figure it out.

Here’s is one way to add an image to the text widget. The text widget is a great way to create a simple custom widget that does not require any PHP code.

WordPress Step by Step Tutorial Step 16 – Working with the Text Widget and the Media Library..

Here’s a little tutorial on wordpress widgets.