How-To
The Meta widget (pre-August 2009)
Description
The Meta widget adds a quick login/logout feature to your sidebar, along with your blog’s RSS feed link. Here are the finer details.
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2.7 (71), WordPress.org (190), WordPress.com (128)
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January 14, 2009
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featured (72), feed (2), meta (3), rss (5), sidebar (16), widgets (19)
January 17, 2009 at 8:06 pm |
hi
January 17, 2009 at 10:21 pm |
Widgets is great for beginers.
I also been using widgets, but when I’ve realized what is in that sudebar.php, you can customize your sidebar without any limitations.
I’ve even put some Flash, using Open Flash Chart to visualize XML data from ECB, you cam see the example in SSE.LT.
Maybe some interesting videos dealing with advanced theming would be great.
January 18, 2009 at 10:08 am |
Some of the widgets have a little bit of getting used to. I have accounts of other neat sites but here, we just get a few. Would it possible in the future that you guys have widgets that allow more legit sites to work. Im trying to put music videos and background music. Also some other stuff that escapes my mind at the moment. Pardon me.
January 18, 2009 at 5:23 pm |
Widgets will be experiencing an overhaul in the next version of WordPress, due first quarter of this year – hopefully that will help you to achieve what you’re looking to do
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January 18, 2009 at 5:35 pm |
An excellent example of Meta widget use. Thinking back to the beginning of my WordPress early days these video clips would have been so incredibly useful. Glad to see use of the .TV in this fashion.
January 19, 2009 at 10:47 am |
Very easy
, excellent example…
January 20, 2009 at 8:04 am |
Very interesting.. keep up the good work!
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January 21, 2009 at 1:37 am |
good visualitation for tutorial
January 30, 2009 at 10:19 am |
wonderful
February 3, 2009 at 12:25 am |
That’s how i want it! But my users register and get sent the link to log and the password but it keeps not letting them login! It’s saying Error: Invalid username. But i can see that the username is in the User & Authors plus the Simple:Press forum lugin members list.
But it’s strange because i can create a dumby username and email and login but a remote pc trying the same can not! Login is very important other wise i can not have a Simple:Press forum and the forum video posting blog! Which was the idea of the site in the first place.
February 7, 2009 at 5:59 pm |
But my users register and get sent the link
February 7, 2009 at 11:58 pm |
please help me to learn this..
February 25, 2009 at 3:40 am |
why isn’t there an easy to use register and login users!
February 26, 2009 at 5:36 am |
Hi Jaffasoft – if you’d like to suggest an improvement on the current way of doing things, WordPress.org has the Ideas page for just that (and a kvetch page just below that). For WordPress.com ideas, there’s a section of the forum devoted to the subject.