Genny,

I would encourage you to release your plugin, though writing plugins  
can be an addictive behavior ;-)

You might consider widgetizing the sidebar component of your plugin so  
that nobody but you needs to muck around in PHP to make it work.  
There's a good template for making the widget and the dashboard  
controls for the widget in the WordPress source. Take a look at the  
bottom of this file, starting around line 1440:

http://trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/2.6.3/wp-includes/widgets.php

And the easiest way to release your plugin is via the WordPress plugin  
directory. You can register your plugin here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/

--Casey

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On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Genny Engel wrote:

> I've written my first WordPress plugin (woohoo!) that displays a  
> "Today
> at the Library" list of the current day's events.  I have the left
> sidebar of our Library News blog set to call the plugin function, as
> seen here:
>
> http://sonomalibrary.org/news/
>
> It's been suggested that I post this as a publicly available plugin,  
> but
> it's so kludgey it's not fit for public consumption -- I can't find a
> WordPress hook that will call it, so I have PHP code in the sidebar to
> call it.  Also, it's currently so specific to libraries with WebEvent
> calendars it's not likely to have much audience.  In theory, it  
> could be
> generalized, but that would take some time.  Is it worth it?
>
> I thought I'd check with the Code4Librs.  Anyone out there think  
> this is
> indeed worth pursuing and if so, want to take some time to help me
> de-kludge?
>
> Thanks a bunch.