Metaplanar Babel

The wizards at Wordpress have released a Widgets Plugin that sounds kind of interesting. It also sounds kind of complimacated, but I may play around with it some. It basically allows a theme developer to specify chunks of code (like a list of links, or a flickr badge, or a google search) that can be moved around in the sidebar by the user; users can also download other widgets to add in. I guess it’s really just a way of making things easier for folks who don’t know enough HTML/CSS/PHP to configure their own sidebars, but it’s definitely an interesting development.