WordPress Widgets make it easy to customize the content of your sidebar. When you install wordpress plugins, some will require you to drag a widget into an area of your wordpress blog sidebar in the backend administration dashboard. You can access the widgets area from the Appearance menu on the left hand side of your WordPress Dashboard.
Did you know there are over 8,000 WordPress Plugins, some of which offer a wordpress widgets to help manage the plugin in your selected widget area?
Twitter WidgetTwitter and Facebook are a few of the big players who offer thier own widget code which you can copy and paste into a html widget and place in your sidebar, footer or header for different purposes. Here's a list of twitter widgets.Profile WidgetDisplay your most recent Twitter updates on any webpage.Search WidgetDisplays search results in real time! Ideal for live events, broadcastings, conferences, TV Shows, or even just keeping up with the news.Faves WidgetShow off your favorite tweets!
Also in real time, this widget will pull in the tweets you've starred as favorites. It's great for moderation.List WidgetPut your favorite tweeps into a list! Then show 'em off in a widget. Also great for moderation.Facebook WidgetFacebook fanbox widget allows you to place your fan box anywhere on your site and show a image of all your fans.Some more widgets are as follows:
• A Yahoo SiteExplorer Widget - Yahoo Site Explorer Badge widgetized for wordpress - great free sidebar tool shows accurate inlinks to your blog. See demo at Yahoo Badge Widget Demo
• About Me Widget - Add an "about me" with image/blurb/links to your sidebar
• Accessibility Widget - allow visitors to text size and stylesheet• Ad Rotator - enter, then rotate, multiple HTML entries separate by <!-more->
• AddToAny Subscribe Widget - Lets readers subscribe to your blog using any feed reader, such as Google Reader, My Yahoo!, Netvibes, Pageflakes, and all the rest. The Subscribe button comes with a drop-down menu that appears on rollover.
• AddThis Sidebar Wiget - AddThis feed subscription and social bookmarking buttons
• Adsense Widget for WordPress - controls color, size, h2 of adsense ad• Advanced Twitter Profile Widget - Adds a sidebar widget to display Twitter updates (using the Javascript). You can set number of messages, color and other features.
• AmR Upcoming Events - very configurable, handles multiple ical feeds
• Apple Trailer - show random movie trailers from apple.com with movie poster
• Around This Date In The Past - shows x years ago entries/posts
• Associative Dictionary - create and show personal dictionary
• Auto Tag Widget - intelligently tag and link your blog, automatically.
• AvFuel - allows entry and display of latest AV fuel prices Battlefield 2 Stats - outputs your Battlefield 2 profile statistics
• Berri YouTube Gallery - gives you possibility to show a YouTube video gallery with customized appearance on your sidebar and all you need is to write the video URLs in the widget control panel. There is no need to register or to get YouTube API
.• BDP Comments -- more options than the built in "recent comments" widget
• BDP List Widget is a general purpose sidebar widget for a list of user-defined text and links. It could be used to create an index or directory for your blog. Up to 9 different lists can be created. Lists must have less than 15 elements.
• BDP RSS Aggregator -- widgetized for WordPress version 2.2
• BDP Setup -- a list of all the active plugins on the sidebar
• BidVertiser - displays BidVertiser text ads• Bitty Browser - Bitty is the little browser that goes on any Web page, like Picture-in-Picture for the Web. Add navigable Web content by URL, RSS feeds, Podcasts, OPML files, or use it with services like Flickr, del.icio.us, Digg, Bloglines, Google, etc.
• BlogBlogs.com.br Favorites - add a list of ths blogs you added as favorites to you sidebar
• Blogger.com - allows visitors to rate your site with the blogger.com service
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