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Want to show what any user was searching for?
It is simple, just add this line where your title would be.

The important line is the_search_query()

I have show you how to create a custom widget in a previous post. But how about adding and additional “Archives” widget that won’t list the last 3 years (if you’ve been around that long) in month form stretching down your whole sidebar?

Well, lets take a look at the original code found in the widgets.php file in the ./wp-includes/ folder.

I was just looking around and saw that Darren Hoyt has released Mimbo 3.0. If your looking for a nice free theme, head over to Darren’s site.

You can also use this link to see a live demo.

In this post I will show you how I created my custom widget showcasing mybloglog readers.

In your function.php file add this simple line of code:

That’s it, just replace the “ReplaceWithYourID” with your mybloglog ID. You can also change the width at c_width=220 to what ever you like.

If you look closely at the code you may also see color codes, you may change them to corresponding hex codes, for example: c_color_bottom_bg=e0e0d4 is the color for the bottom background. e0e0d4 is a light gray,

Many weblog sites these days have some form of an archive page. In WordPress it might be the built in auto generation of permalinks by: /Month/ and /date/.

But in some blog’s, for instance this one here (as I said in a previous post) you can’t get the post to paginate or link to http://youblog.com/page/2 if you have nice permalinks active or http://youblog.com/?paged=2.

By any means, In this theme I have to have an archive link at the bottom. So..

Archive WordPress Plugins

There are many plugins which allows you to automatically create an archive page. The

Darren Rowse from Pro Blogger wrote a great article of a collection of different article to get the beginning blogger of his/her feet. Head over and check this one out!

Today Matt Mullenweg from MA.TT declared today official plugin developer day because the plugin directory hit 4,000 plugins, check it out: 4,000 Plugins.

If you use pages and subpages or posts and parent posts on your WordPress blog, it should be a good idea to display parent page/post title while on a child page. Here’s a code to do that job easily by the recipe man: WpRecipes.
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I recently went looking for a good audio player for WordPress. I came across WPAudioPlayer from 1 pixel out.

The plugin is extremely simple to use and has a really awesome automatic color detention tool which will match to your site with ease. For more info visit the demo page at http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

Jeff Chandler has done a great interview with Dan Milward of Instinct. Check it out here.

Firefox is regarded as the best Web browser in terms of extensions. It has hundreds of add-ons, which can be downloaded from here. Pavel Ciorici collected the most useful WordPress related Firefox extensions (addons) and compiled them on this post.
photo by: Pavel Ciorici