Widget

In the past I’ve mentioned a very complex plugin named “WidgetPress”, which I built and is the underlying foundation of the Sears Community and Kmart Community sites. What WidgetPress does is complex, and the short time I had did not allow me to really clean it up the way I would have liked to. This is why I have not released it publicly. However, the lessons learned from WidgetPress are many, and some of the ideas and solutions that led to its completion can be feathered out of the bulky plugin into their own stand-alone plugins. Thats exactly what I am trying to do now. The specific functionality I’m working on right now is the idea of using custom post types and taxonomies in such a way that they are no longer independent. It will take some explaining to show how this is useful so I will start by explaining how it is used in WidgetPress. ...

Download Simple Hook Widget from the WordPress Plugin Repository The Simple Hook Widget just got a little bit less simple. Since I released this originally, it seems people have a hard time understanding what this plugin could possibly be good for. I can understand that given the vague nature of it being a plugin for hooks. Additionally, there is a signficant security problem in having this plugin turned on for a server where other non-developers have access to the widgets panel - primarily thats because this plugin lets you do ANYTHING !! Including the use of hooks that are part of core, and could cause serious problems if they are run at the wrong time (such as in the sidebar. ...