This was based initially on the Flickr Badge Widget, but it is a lot 
more basic, and uses a <a href="http://www.plogger.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Plogger</a> library feed 
for its source.
I wrote it because Flickr started wanting to charge me for hosting photos. I pay a few bucks a month on web hosting, and didn’t see the point in 
also paying Flickr, given that uploading via SCP is no harder than using 
jUploadr or whatever. I installed Plogger, which seems to be a 
decent bare-bones replacement.
However, the one thing I missed about Flickr was the nice WordPress 
widget that showed my photos in the sidebar of my blog. So, I scratched 
my own itch and wrote this widget. Presto – thumbnail images in the 
sidebar.
You just assign it a Plogger feed URL and it does its thing. (The GPL 
PHP RSS library lastRSS is included – which makes this widget GPL too.)
It is still very basic and needs some developer TLC to give it the 
features that Plogger deserves. Hit me up if you can help – I don’t have 
much free time, so improvements will be slow if it’s just me on my 
own.

Plogger Badge Widget

A simple widget that displays images from a Plogger feed in the sidebar.

Olav Kolbu

NASA makes a new Image Of The Day available every day in their gallery, 
complete with a fairly detailed description of what you see. This plugin 
grabs a thumbnail of the current image along with an extract of the 
accompanying description, and makes it available as a WordPress sidebar 
widget. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the NASA Gallery where 
you can view the full sized image and read the rest of the text. No 
local storage is used, the image and text is fetched on every view.
A friendly user let me know that the Image Of The Day is also 
available as an RSS feed. That greatly simplified this plugin and 
should make it impervious to cosmetic changes at NASA. In 
addition to this, the image width is now customizable. The height 
is calculated per image so that it stays proportional when scaled 
(down) to width.
<a href="https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/nasa-image-of-the-day.zip" rel="nofollow ugc">Download now!</a>
<a href="http://www.kolbu.com/2008/03/28/nasa-image-of-the-day-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Support</a>

NASA Image Of The Day

Adds a sidebar widget to display the current image from the NASA Image Of The Day Gallery. Now using RSS.

Plogger Badge Widget vs NASA Image Of The Day