Dave Sabol

After a busy weekend of doing holiday related stuff including taking my son on a train ride with Santa on Saturday and having a special visit from Santa at our house on Sunday, I had a ton of great pictures to get in order.

This prompted me to take a good look at my family website which I have been neglecting for some time now. Among the many plugins I have using, I use fGallery by Frederik Fahlstad for our photo gallery because it is reliable, predictable and pretty easy to use. Up until this point it was well integrated into my template, but I decided to upgrade that as well, which in turn broke the plugin to an extent (the images aren’t displaying).

So since I was aleady under the hood, I decided to widgetize my new template and take the functions for fGallery that allowed me to display either the most recently added or random recently added images in my sidebar and create a widget for that as well. You can find the downloadable widget, which I am calling the fGallery Sidebar Widget here. It really isn’t that big of an accomplishment (although it is my first widget), but I think it is inherently easier to work with than having to hard code the function call in the template itself.