Writing a custom Wordpress multi-instance widget

Posted by Tristan Waddington on Dec 3, 2009 in Blog, Braindump, Web Development | 3 comments

While working on a soon-to-be finished Wordpress theme for a client, I ran into a situation where it would be useful to create a custom widget that they could use to organize content on their site. Basically, they wanted to be able to select a random post or page and display some associated meta data. Essentially a custom image and content teaser. They were going to be doing this several times...