Genny,

I second Casey's comments. One thing that makes Wordpress great is the
variety of plugins. For people using WebEvent it will be very helpful, but
it will also give other people ideas about other calendar widgets they might
want to build.

Karen


On 11/6/08 8:42 AM, "Casey Bisson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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.

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