June 30, 2014 — In this session learn how to build your first WordPress widget. It goes step-by-step through the best practices for building a simple widget, talks about different existing widgets and some possibilities for new custom widgets. It discusses when a widget should be built into a theme or plugin, and when a widget should be its own plugin.

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August 31, 2011

July 10, 2010 — This is live WordPress development without a net. Alex King and Shawn Parker from Crowd Favorite take you through the full process of creating a new feature/add-on/customization for WordPress; from concept to architecture to code.

July 24, 2009 — This short video introduces you to adding and managing widgets on your WordPress.com blog.

January 13, 2009 — If you have a lot of links in your sidebar, you might want to make them easier to navigate by breaking up them up into categories. Here’s how it works.

January 12, 2009 — Widgets let you customize the content that appears in the sidebar(s) of your blog. This video walks you through the basics of adding widgets.