Richard Shepherd

Welcome to the final part of our tutorial on how to write your own WordPress Twitter Widget.

Welcome back! So you should have read through part one of the tutorial, where we left things off with the following line of code: $result = $t -> userTimeline($id=false, $count = ($options[’tweets’] * 4), $since = false); (If that looks strange, make sure you check out part 1 of this tutorial!) We now have our [...]

So you may have noticed in the sidebar over there on the right there’s a bunch of my recent Tweets. There are plenty of WordPress Twitter widgets, some better than others, but why not start and write your own? In this three part tutorial we’ll look at putting together the basic code, and then in [...]

So how do you put together your own WordPress widget? All you need is to know your way around PHP. If you can program your application in PHP the chances are it can be turned into a Widget. I’m first going to go through the structure of a Widget, and then we’re going to get [...]

You may have noticed a new widget in the sidebar called the phpFlickr Widget. It’s a widget I have developed for WordPress which allows you to include your Flickr photos in your blog, and display them with the rather funky Slimbox tool. Click on one of the photos and see what I mean. Slimbox, as [...]