phpLD Widgets

Today, we released phpLD Version 4 into Beta for licensed users, the new feature is widgets. This site (david-duval.com) is running phpLD version 4. Here is a little explanation of what widgets do.

First, there are currently four main positions where a widget can appear

1. Left Side
2. Center
3. Right Side
4. Detail Page

(In the future there may be more positions available)

Second, we have a new directory of widgets. Here you will find all sorts of "widgets" you can place in the areas listed above including:

1. Top Categories
2. Latest Links
3. Latest Tweets on Twitter
4. Full text of the last article

(there are a total of 17 so far, as well as many more to come)

Since I have the Latest Article widget turned on in the admin panel, you will see this article appear right on the homepage of my phpLD, so this helps me have fresh content every time I post a new article.

What is also nice is I can change the sort order of widgets, turn some off, and others on, move them to different locations, etc, and all it takes is a few tweaks from the admin panel. So very quickly I can change my site around using widgets. I hope others find widgets as fun as they have been for me!