Creating Widgets in WordPress 2.8 with the Widget API

Earlier this week, we published a post about working with the WordPress 2.8 Actions API, so here’s a post by WooCamp on working with the Widgets API. The post covers how to create a simple, multi-instance widget for adding posts to your sidebar.

Highlight Search Terms with jQuery

Show your user where their search terms appear in their query results with this quick tutorial from Weblog Tools Collection. [Link]

Displaying Error Messages in WordPress

Ever wanted to know what the actual problem is when WordPress returns a blank white screen? Turns out a simple line of PHP can tell WordPress to output the error. [Link]

WordPress Frameworks Comparison Chart

Dan Cole has made an excellent guest post on WPTavern on the comparisons between the Thematic, Hybrid, and Carrington frameworks. [Link]

Win a Free Copy of Hash One

Colorburned is having a giveaway, and the prize is a free limited edition copy of Obox Design’s WordPress theme, Hash One. [Link]

A new term to describe widgets?

Ptah Dunbar proposes a get_widget() function. Similar to get_sidebar(), but it’s there to show that widgets don’t necessarily have to show up on a sidebar area. What do you think? [Link]

Help for WordPress 2.7 Users

Article includes a link to a beginner’s guide to WordPress 2.7 and also a WordPress 2.7 training material PDF. Useful. [Link]

Theme Playground interviews Matt Mullenweg

Ryan Imel interviews Matt Mullenweg about WordPress and the community surrounding it. [Link]