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Using Template Tags In Wordpress Widgets

January 1, 2009 @ 6:23pm

by Rob Sanchez

When working on our Wordpress theme here, I was looking for a way to create a more custom widget than the default Categories widget, without having much know-how when it comes to Wordpress plugin design. But Google comes to the rescue: this great tutorial from Lonewolf Online on how to create a simple, custom plugin w/ widget. Then you can go crazy with template tags in widgets, even if you are not a pro with plugin creation.

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jQuery Tablesorter Plugin

October 24, 2008 @ 9:59pm

Updated — February 3, 2009 @ 7:49am

by Rob Sanchez

I read about the jQuery Tablesorter Plugin a while back. It seemed cool enough.

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell.

I didn’t bother to try it out, though. I guess I didn’t really believe that it could work so easily.

Here I am months later, in need of some table sorting. So I went ahead and tried it. And it JUST WORKED. As advertised. I did not have to jump through any configuration hoops. Cross-browser? No problem. Developers, this plugin will save you time. Props to Christian Bach who created this plugin.