How to create new wordpress widgets for my themes

Question

How to create new wordpress widgets for my themes ?

Answer 1

This is my favourite tutorial about that:

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28

I'm using it as a base to all my widgets.

Basically, the widget is a plugin, but you extend the class WP_Widget. It's quite easy, just follow that tutorial.

Also this is helpful http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API

Good luck!

Answer 2

This is more a question for google than stackoverflow. You'll find tons of tutorials and examples on the web.

• Widget API on wordpress site: http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API
• Example of tutorial: http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/05/26/the-complete-guide-to-creating-widgets-in-wordpress-28
• Another one: http://www.lonewolfdesigns.co.uk/create-wordpress-widgets/