jimisaacs

<p>In addition to adding numerous extremely useful widgets for developers and users alike, this plugin is a system written on a PHP 5 object oriented structure. In short, it is built for modification and extension. It wraps the WordPress Widget API to allow for an alternative, and in my opinion more robust method to hook into and use it. Widgets are WordPress’s version of user interface modules. They already support an administrative and client-side view. This system simply leverages that with a higher potential in mind.</p>
<p>This plugin started as a collection of widgets that I developed over time and used in numerous projects. I eventually merged them into one conglomerate which is now known as the ‘Extensible Widgets’ plugin. Currently I do not have extensive documentation on the plugin functionality and code-base yet.</p>
<p>A Quick summary is that this plugin in its current state is a PHP widget class manager, as well as a collection of useful widget classes that build on each other for extended functionality. When the plugin is first activated, the widget classes included are not registered automatically, and will not appear within your WordPress widgets administration page. To activate your desired widgets you must go to the ‘Extensible Widgets’ Registration page. From there you can read a short description before registering anything.</p>
<p>This plugin also comes with an Export and Import page. You will notice this functionality is very useful in backing up your current data of all your widgets and ‘Extensible Widgets’ settings. I felt this was a major necessity since while using ‘Extensible Widgets’ these little pieces of data suddenly turn into major aspects in the whole of your website. I needed to give an acceptable method of retrieving, backing up, and restoring that data if something bad happens.</p>
<p>A quick summary of the most useful of the widgets included:</p>
<ul>
<li>Widget Group: Use this widget to create a new widget group, as a widget? Yes… this is where it gets interesting.</li>
<li>Query Posts: A Widget than can create and use a sub-query or use the current global query and output the results in a view template.</li>
<li>Context: More basic options that would be good for any widget, but this widget is specifically used for controlling where widgets appear.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Widgets</h3>
<p>These are the widgets that come with this plugin. No widget here is pre-registered, this is to let you register them as needed. Each widgets builds on another’s functionality, and you may view the hierarchy from within the ‘Extensible Widgets’ registration page.</p>
<h4>Widget Base</h4>
<p>The base for ‘Extensible Widgets’ and not much on its own, it can still serve as a useful dynamic element.</p>
<h4>Context</h4>
<p>More basic options that would be good for any widget, but this widget is specifically used for controlling where widgets appear.</p>
<h4>View</h4>
<p>Use the view template control system and pass custom parameters to display data in any desired format.</p>
<h4>Content</h4>
<p>Use this widget to enter any data (ex: text/HTML/XML/JavaScript) and optionally access it within in a view template.</p>
<h4>Date</h4>
<p>Use this widget to select a view template and handle any arbitrary date.</p>
<h4>Widget Group</h4>
<p>Use this widget to create a new widget group, as a widget? Yes… this is where it gets interesting.</p>
<h4>Query Posts</h4>
<p>A Widget than can create and use a sub-query or use the current global query and output the results in a view template.</p>
<h4>QP Extended</h4>
<p>This is an extended version of the Query Posts widget with a controlled form.</p>
<h4>Twitter</h4>
<p>Use this widget to retrieve statuses from a specified twitter account.</p>


Extensible Widgets

Includes extremely useful widgets for developers and users alike, and is a system written on a PHP 5 object oriented structure.

Francis Crossen

<p>Tina MVC provides you with base classes and helper classes and functions on which you build your WordPress applications.</p>
<p>It uses a lose model view controller pattern to abstract design and logic and make life easier for you and your HTML designer.</p>
<h3>Features:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Completely separate your code from WordPress themes. Your users can change their theme and still retain your application functionality.</li>
<li>A helper class for generating and processing HTML forms.</li>
<li>A helper class for generating paginated tables from SQL (for when custom posts are not appropriate).</li>
<li>A helper class for generating HTML tables from your data.</li>
<li>Separation of your code from core Tina MVC files for easy upgrades.</li>
<li>Compact and non-intrusive. Currently 3 filters plus 1 action hook for widgets and 1 shortcode hook are used for basic usage.</li>
<li>A function to allow you to call a Tina MVC controller from your theme file (breaks the MC) or from another controller.</li>
<li>Flexible enough for quick procedural prototyping – don’t like MVC? No problem!</li>
</ul>
<h3>Tutorials, Documentation and Code Samples</h3>
<p>All Tina MVC documentation is included with the plugin. After activating the plugin you can access it from the WordPress admin back end. (Look for the Tina MVC administration page.)<br />
Source code is liberally commented for PhpDocumentor.</p>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This version is GPL v2 licensed. If you are interested in alternative licensing models, or in commercial support, please contact the author at http://www.seeit.org/about-us/.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>Support for this version is available at https://wordpress.org/tags/tina-mvc?forum_id=10 or by leaving a comment at http://www.seeit.org/tina-mvc-for-wordpress/.</p>
<h3>Known Issue(s)</h3>
<p>Tina MVC support for permalinks based on post name is experimental. Currently it generates a PHP warning from a core WordPress file.</p>


Author: Francis Crossen (fcrossen)

Tina MVC is a Wordpress framework that allows you to develop plugins, shortcodes and and widgets.

Extensible Widgets vs Author: Francis Crossen (fcrossen)