Craig isn't happy with the HTML produced by WordPress's wp_tag_cloud() function. In this tutorial he provides a customizable tag cloud generator which can be styled using CSS.

Learn how to add your own settings in widgets, that you can't otherwise touch their code.

Looking for a way to add the very popular "shop the post" widgets to your WordPress or Blogger site? Get all the details right here and monetize your posts.

If you updated to 4.8 WordPress you'll notice a lot of nice improvements, but there is one thing that was done that I felt was like an artist over-working her painting: changing the Text widget to use…

Widgets are blocks of content that can be added to front-end pages such as sidebars. Follow this tutorial on how to create a WordPress widget from scratch.

While I have been generally happy with the plugin, I was not impressed with the lack of options that come with the events list widget. Also, the widget only shows the title of the event and the dat…

Over the years, we've written a lot about WordPress. At one time or another, we've covered most of t...

Do you want to use oEmbed in your text widgets? Here is a step by step guide on how to enable oEmbed...

Have you ever wished that your WordPress dashboard was a more useful place? Sure, there are plugins that add modules there but there are countless metrics and shortcuts you may want to add yourself...

Wondering how to go about creating your own custom WordPress widgets? Here's a quick guide to going ...

Sidebars can be a confusing term in WordPress. This is mostly because in the context of themes and w...

The default dropdown categories widget in WordPress displays the text "Select Category" as a first o...

Widgets are a neat way of giving site owners some control over the look (and sometimes functionality) of their WordPress sites. In this series, we are going to be creating a handful of WordPress...

Widgets allow you or anyone using your site, theme or plugin to place content into the sidebar or any other widget area without having to write code. In this five part series I'll show you how to...

WordPress widgets seem to be shortcode’s poor cousins. Perhaps it’s because they are a little more “black box”, a little trickier to code or thought of simply as a sid

Beginner's guide to create a custom WordPress widget. Step by step tutorial on how to create your own custom widgets in WordPress.

Building WordPress widgets is just like building a plugin but it is more simple and straightforward. All you need to do is have a single file in which all the PHP goes and it's easier to code than a...

Here we'll cover creating a dynamic widget: one that accepts, formats, and displays user input. Today we're continuing David's discussion of widgets from a