flShow WordPress Plugin

Today, my Chicago-based WordPress-powered design firm released their first plugin: WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin.  It allows you to easily manage photo galleries from your media library, and creates a template tag to easily insert the Carousel Galleries into your theme.

I love working with WordPress 9-5.  It's different than building and supporting general use templates, though.  Most of our projects have little application outside of the very specific niche that our clients serve.  Occassionally, though, we need something broad enough that it's worth making widely available.  It's great to be able to give back to the community.

UDPATE: the plugin is now available on WordPress.org.

WordPress widgets are a fantastic plugin. and a fantastic platform. the links widget, however, was rather an afterthought it seems. I'm not the first one to replace it. it's a shame. The wordpress link administratration panel offers massive customization options, but most of the wordpress template tags completely disregard them. The standard widget is much the same, completely disregarding the widget API.

Links block is interesting, and it follows the API, but it requires more effort from the user. King Links does everything the original links admin page does, but it's a replacement for the entire panel. and it requires modifying core files.

So, this is a simple replacement for the links widget. I originally released it as part of the Disconnected theme. It gives back all the functionality of the admin panel, and conforms to the widget API. This isn't some great achievement, all of this code comes straight out of the codex. Which is why the Tarski Links Widget is nearly identical. I'm still working on adding the option to use something other than a list. Since it's pretty rare that anyone changes the before and after link values, I'm going to release this now. So I can waste my brain power on other things.

Links List 0.1.beta(zip)

Per andy's comment below, this widget is for WordPress 2.0.x only. version 2.1+ is set to contain bugfixes that will supercede this widget

This plugin is now hosted in the wordpress plugin database. Please file any bugs or feature requests in trac.