nicely going theme you’ve got there. I really like the idea with colored boxes and the bottom part with links and stuff. :)

Regarding your question… as logical as it is, I never actually thought of it, so I’m not sure at the moment. Thanks for asking! I’ll check it out and either reply here (if it’s something small), or write up a new post (if it makes sense).

In other words, do the widgets leave settings in the database upon removal? Should these be cleaned up using a hook like unregister_widget() (if it exists, I haven’t looked yet)? Or does WordPress do this automatically?

Just want to make things nice and neat…

making widget into a plugin is not any more complicated. All you have to do is put a file with some comments at the top to the plugin folder. The minimum comment, I think, should be the “Plugin Name”, but you can easily add more.

Once you have the comment with meta information about your plugin at the top, and WordPress recognizes it as a plugin, you can put your widget stuff – register_sidebar_widget(), etc.

Now that you’ve shown that widgets are crazy-simple to make, I might just have a go at it myself.

Thanks!

guilty as charged. :)

Yes, indeed, there is more. I’m working on a new post for widget series. Multiple instances with their own options each. It should come out sometime before WordPress 2.3. :)

Can I have multiple instances of a widget? can each use a separate “argument”?

This would probably be great for configuring different banner ad blocks for openAds (phpAdsNew) within the different sidebars– but each uses a different banner ad zone id.

You wanna continue showing us how to get progressively complex with this stuff? You’ve done great so far.

just put all your code in the widget’s PHP file. Including the register_sidebar_widget() and register_widget_control() function calls. If you use the Widget Loader plugin, than your widget’s PHP file will get included and whatever is in there will be executed.

Regarding the text version – yes, I want to do it. But currently WordPress.com doesn’t even support text attachments. Boomers. I should probably let them know or something… :)