Comments on: Bloodhound Scenius in a Widget

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:02:08 +0000

Dave – awesome. I’ll have to check that plugin out again.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:40:45 +0000

Kevin,

I haven’t, since running into My Custom Widget I’ve not even looked at another plugin to create custom widgets. This thing is an amazing plugin and I’m using it on a variety of blogs since discovering it.

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:41:24 +0000

Dave – have you played around with the Wordpress PHP widget plugin? I find that it works fine – even with the Thesis theme, which I run over at my FloridaMortgageBlogger blog. However, it does not play nice with all formatting for the Scenius headers (titles). Though, this may be a php code issue inherent in the scene and not w/ the plugin.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:27:37 +0000

Kevin,

All That I got was a begin Scenius and End Scenius There wasn’t any code in side.

Can you provide the URL to the Scenius site where you created your code?

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:25:21 +0000

Hey Dave – Gotcha: Here is my Scenius Code. I have the plugin installed on my blog.

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:20:12 +0000

Kevin,

All my sites are WP 2.7 It is working fine.

I can’t send you any code till you create the Scenius code yourself then send it to me. Once you do that I can put that code in a .php file and email it back to you.

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:57:14 +0000

Hey Dave! Will send you the code ASAP. Question, think the Fun with Widget plugin may not be 2.7 ready?

By: Dave Smith

Dave Smith — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:21:12 +0000

Kevin,

Download and install the Fun with theme widgets from the link above.

download the Phoenix headlines zip file which contains the code for the senius code for the phoenix headlines.

Create your own Scenius code.

You can then copy that code into the Phoenix Headline file replacing the existing code with your code. Change the heading to whatever you want for your widget.

You can edit this in Notepad. Once it is done copy it to the directory in which the theme you are using on your blog exists. Ex. Cutline theme, put the new php file in your Cutline theme directory under wp-content/themes/Cutline/

Go into the theme widgets and you should find your new Senius widget ready to put in your sidebar.

The short cut version. Do the first step installing the Fun with theme widgets plugin and activate it.

Create your Senius code.

Email me the code.

I’ll create the widget php file for you and you can ftp it to your theme directory.

By: Kevin Sandridge

Kevin Sandridge — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:01:20 +0000

Hey Dave! I would like to create a widget for WP using my own Scenius. Can you provide a bit of insight into how I do this? Looked at the plugin, but am a bit lost.