WordPress widget ideas

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   Justin Tadlock (Key Master)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   I've been thinking of just spending some time to release a lot of cool widgets that are simple but do a job that users need. These are the kinds of things that I can build in a few hours. The idea is to build a body of work that can easily be plugged into themes with multiple widget-ready areas (i.e. Hybrid).

   I'm not thinking things as complex as my Query Posts widget, but something on a much smaller scale. Some examples:

   * Author profile
   * Posts from category X.
   * Gallery display
   * Post thumbs

   What I'd like to do is release about 20 or so of these widgets. But, I need ideas and lots of them. Are there any widgets you'd just love to see done?

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   Thomas Clausen (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   Here's a few ideas:

   - Extending the My Snippets plugin, so that we can use it more than one time per post.
   - RSS feed mashup widget, where we could put more RSS-feeds into it
   - Post from the first category that this post (should only work on posts) is in
   - Advanced search (where the user can segment on categories, and custom taxonomies)

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   SteveX (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   Ability to change post_type for a post

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   John Myrstad (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   - Related links
   ( some way to show manual chosen links that are related to a post/page )

   - Related documents
   ( some way to show manual chosen attachments/documents that are related to a post/page )

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   John Myrstad (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   I also have to second Thomas suggestion to expand the Snippets features.

   I`d like to see a solution with eg 4 tabs for 4 widget areas, ( and maybe a 5th tab, a "sketch board" with TinyMCE visual editor to use for formatting of widget content with cut and paste into the 4 other tabs. )

6. 

   John Myrstad (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   - Custom fields widget(s)

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   John Myrstad (Member)
   Posted 3 years ago | Permalink

   May it be possible to make widgets that show content from a custom post type ?

   Then it would be possible to edit widget content type without going to appearance>widgets which might make better usability for authors.

   Imagine the front page having some neat styled widget info-boxes with icons, custom headings, typography, some short copy and a read more link.

   Custom post type might have input fields for: icon, headline, headline style, background style, copy, and read more link.

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   rasmusdotse (Member)
   Posted 2 years ago | Permalink

   Move the Breadcrumb trail out from the theme and into a widget, so it can be displayed anywhere.

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   LuWeeks (Member)
   Posted 2 years ago | Permalink

   1)
   Enhance Hybrid Tabs so that individual post categories can be chosen for tabs. Also ability to select a page for a tab, and the tab display the child page links.

   2)
   Wish there were an Events/Calendar widget that would show a list of event links in date order, such that it would show the next N events, dropping events after the day they occur.

   There would need to be a standard way of putting the date/time in the event link. Another alternative would be to have the events be pages, rather than links.

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    SupplementUpdates (Member)
    Posted 2 years ago | Permalink

    I'd love to see widgets that allow customization of front page layouts like for Hybrid News.

    1. I still love the tabbed category post previews with thumbnails that you did for the options theme. If you could make a plugin that did this, it would be killer.
    2. A plugin to do the same as above, but for RSS feeds. I found a way of doing this, but the shortcodes for RSS with thumbnails require a ton of CSS to style. A simple plugin would make this easier.
    3. I've seen websites that have cool horizontal thumbnail sliders with thumbnail/post title and I haven't been able to find one. There's tons of plugins for front page sliders, but this would be a nice way to display posts on the front page. The best way that I can describe what I'm talking about is the "media news" slider on this theme: http://www.gabfirethemes.com/demos/transcript/

    Yeah, I realize that my wish list of plugins are pretty complex and would be time consuming to make.

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    David Clabaut (Member)
    Posted 2 years ago | Permalink

    A News-ticker widget, based on taxonomy (custom taxonomy?) and/or category, flexible enough to be fully customized in the widget panel.

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    sooner (Member)
    Posted 2 years ago | Permalink

    Actually, expanding widgets into a post would be really cool. News or Magazines need these types of boxes for sharing, or editor contact. I'd love widgets that do more to polish the sophistication of a blog, "the team" or "Featured writer" someone that's actually written in the last month. Widget areas need to get smarter, footer/sidebar are great, but under content double side-by-side boxes would be cool related and comments with thumbnails. I don't think a designer has ever really asked someone like me who actually publishes a major magazine what actually needs to go into one. Hybrid News is a love hate relationship so long as I've had you to help me expand its edges.

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