For the past few weeks I have been working on a small coding project and today I am proud to announce its first public release!
Fidgetr is a WordPress widget that displays the latest photos from your Flickr photostream in an attractive manner. It features support for its own themes along with very simple setup and good compatibility with various WordPress themes. I will likely continue to announce releases here, but Fidgetr’s homepage will always have the latest news. The code is hosted via subversion on wordpress.org and is licensed under the GPL. I welcome any improvements and/or theme contributions!
A big thanks goes out to the following people:
Matt Pennig for his invaluable assistance with various javascript and CSS questions.
Major Hayden for testing the widget and tolerating my constant chattering about WP plugin development.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions feel free to leave them here or on Fidgetr’s homepage.
Thank you!
Hello,
I am just getting my site up and running and was pleased to see Fidgetr. Since I am using 2.7, I can get the widget from the WordPress back-end tool and have it automatically installed.
The problem is when I add the widget (appearance->widgets->Fidgetr->Add), all the “Current Widgets” shown on the right of the screen disappear, including the “Save Changes” button.
Could you please provide some guidance?
-Bill
Hi Bill,
This is a bug I’ve never seen before…is there any way you can send me the generated HTML source for the widgets page in your admin dashboard? Just choose “show source” and then you can paste it to pastie.org and give me the URL to look at it. The easiest method of troubleshooting is logging directly in myself, but that’s obviously too much of a security risk for you!