Widgetizing

I have taken the time over a few evenings to widgetize my sites theme and then use new widget plugins to recreate my sidebar in a widgetized form!  Wordpress widgets seem to be the in thing right now.  It is basically a simple way of creating a customised sidebar without having to edit any code.  Of course that is not entirely true, it is of no use if your theme does not accept widgets or the widget plugin require some CSS rewriting.  I did spend a lot of time last weekend updating the theme to accept a widgetized sidebar.

The widgetized sidebar basically lets you drag and drop the required sidebar components into the sidebar and saving this means the sidebar is created on the fly as the sum of its parts.  It took a while to work it all out but I have managed to get it exactly as the PHP hard-coded version! Which I never expected.  This is a great bit of functionality for those people without the skills to update the template.