Think Different

This tutorial will explain how to create Wordpress widget from scratch. We will make widget using PHP5 OOP. You will also learn how to implement configuration page for your widget. Getting started You should already have Wordpress installed, either on your local machine or on a testing server. For this tutorial we will use the Wordpress version 2.7. You should also have a theme that support widgets. You could use the default one or make a wordpress theme from scratch and widgetize it. Widget name The first task in creating a Wordpress widget is to think about what the widget will do, and make a (hopefully unique) name for your widget. Check out Plugins and the other repositories it refers to, to verify that your name is unique; you might also do a Google search on your proposed name. The name can be multiple words. Widget files We will start by creating a folder widget-name in our wp-content/plugins/ directory, where Wordpress stores all it’s plugins. It’s a good idea to alwa...