I had some time last weekend (after realizing that the other site upgraded relatively painlessly) and went a searchin’ for some tools to help configure my layout from anywhere – even work, in a pinch. ;)
I ran across a little goldmine over here. It’s a group of WordPress ‘Widgets,’ mini-plugins that work off a special widget plugin you can find here.
What I’m using from his list so far:
— King Framework – Required, its a library for the other stuff
— King Login – Used primarily to restrict my login/meta section to the main page
— King Text – It allows inclusion of HTTP/PHP files. Yay!
— King RSS – Much nicer-looking RSS feed, which allows different settings in different areas.
An example of what some of this allowed is available from my ‘Second Life’ catagory link. You’ll see two things a bit different:
— At the top of the sidebar, there’s an updating Lindex stat summary (mined on a regular basis from outside my webroot).
— Just under that, the RSS feed for the Linden Weblog has more entries listed.
I’m still playing with these, and some of the other widgets not listed. Should be fun…
EDIT – Hah. As I post this I (of course) run across some sort of bug, or combination of things that are creating a bug. More later, but the RSS feed is back to the main page only…
–TSK