The latest version of WordPress is out. I’ll be doing the upgrade to WordPress 2.2 in the next few hours.

Along with other great improvements, the latest version of WordPress support widgets right out-of-the-box. The gurus at WordPress are on an enhanced roll-out cycle. Stay tuned for more great innovations.

In honor of the release:

I’ve upgraded my release of the Imieniny widget plug-in to beta 0.1.

I am also releasing a new widget, the Gadu-Gadu widget plug-in. The widget is for folks who use (or would like to use) the Gadu-Gadu IM client.

I’ve released the latest version, alpha 0.4, available from my downloads page.

I cleaned up the code a bit more and corrected an issue I had where the option values set in the Presentation – Sidebar widgets tab were reset upon re-opening. The php code was not complete and the options were lost on reloads.

I’m thinking that it is pretty stable now and I’d love your feedback on this version.

Does it work for you?
Does it make sense?
Are the options sufficient?

Thanks.

As I mentioned in Blog updates, I had added a PHP script to my blog to list the current saints’ name day. I took that script and created a Word Press widget out of it.

As recommended by Automattic, I took their Google widget script, which is very well documented, and worked from there, adding Adam Brucki’s Imieniny PHP script to it.

I had already taken the script and updated it for UTF-8 compliance and tweaked the output.

I’ve now added a section to the script to adjust for server time differences. My server in on UTC so I had to adjust the time by -5 hours.

I am releasing the widget as an alpha 0.1 version. It works for me ‘as expected’ but there are no guarantees… It is being released as-is. If it breaks your stuff, delete the plug-in and move on.

Here are some of the things I’d like to do with it:

• Allow the end user to adjust the title
• Allow the end use to adjust the time differential
• Clean-up the code

For the most current download version please see my downloads page.

To install:

1. Unpack
2. FTP the imieniny.php file to your plug-ins directory
3. Activate the plug-in
4. Drag the Imieniny widget to the preferred locale on your sidebar (your theme must have widget support and Automattic’s Widgets must be installed.