[wp-hackers] New Widgets API

[Joost de Valk]

Bless you Ryan, great work!

Ryan Boren wrote:
> In trunk is a new widgets API.  WP_Widget is a class that abstracts
> away much of the complexity involved in writing a widget, especially
> multi-widgets. Basically, you extend WP_Widget with your own class
> that provides a constructor and three methods -- widget(), form(), and
> update().  widget() outputs the actual content of the widget.
> update() processes options to be saved.  form() outputs the options
> form.  A widget is registered by passing the name of the widget class
> to register_widget().  All widgets written with WP_Widget are multiple
> instance capable.  Options for old single-instance widgets ported to
> WP_Widget will be upgraded to the new multi-option storage format,
> which is simply a multi-dimensional array keyed by instance ID.
> Options for widgets using the old multi-instance pattern should work
> as is.  If your widget has custom option storage needs, you can
> provide your own get_settings() and save_settings() methods.
>
>   The WP_Widget source can be viewed here (read the phpdoc for more
> info on usage):
>
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/widgets.php
>
> You can see examples of how to use it here:
>
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/default-widgets.php
>
> If you author any widgets, try porting them to WP_Widget and give your
> feedback on what can be improved.  The trac ticket is:
>
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8441
>
> (Props to the MultiWidget class, on which WP_Widget is based:
> http://blog.firetree.net/2008/11/30/wordpress-multi-widget/)
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