This is definitly not the final state since the framework offers quite some more widget features, but i build this widget some time ago and had not the time to fill it up all the way. This way it leaves some air for updates
 

Features

- all options for wp_list_pages() covered

– use foldable Pages List if Plugin is installed

- remote Version check

– HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- based on the king framework

Screenshot

English Admin Screens

 king_pages_admin_screen_1.jpg

 king_pages_admin_screen_2.jpg

 Comming Features

- Whatever you might suggest… 

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-pages.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework (/king-includes Folder) into /plugins !!

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Widget on one of your sidebars, set the default Option switch and then play with it.

Download

 king-pages_0.53.zip (09.07.2006 21:30)

This is the first Widget that implements an option for using a Javascript Slider. The slider lets you open and close a widget. The usage needs a little bit of html experience, but i´m trying to improve that and give a decent example.

Also brand new is the Options Dump. You can copy/paste your Widget Option stringified from one widget or blog to another. If your friend does not know how to set the right options, just send her yours without having to click through 10 fields.
 

Features

- set custom Login Redirect URL

– show/hide logout link

- show/hide register Link

– show/hide link to own articles

- Option to use Javascript Slide Open/Close with cookie set for state

- Option to dump/read all settings into a string for easy transfer between widgets or blogs

– function to use inside your templates (indipenditly from widget)

- HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- Set on which Website Area to show the Widget. Options are:

• show "NOT on special page area" which can be combined with "Show in Category" (List/Article)
• show on Home / Search / Archive / Author or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a Category (with ID). For Category Listings and also Articles
• You find all Options explained in the WordPress Codex in Conditional Tags  make sure to definitly read this if you are using those Options!

- based on the king framework

Screenshot / Screencast

English Admin Screens

 king_login_admin_screen_1.jpg

 king_login_admin_screen_2.jpg

 king_login_admin_screen_3.jpg 

 Comming Features

- Whatever you might suggest… 

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-login.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework (/king-includes Folder) into /plugins (need new version(0.68) from 2.07.2006)!!

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Widget on one of your sidebars and then play with it.

-  If you want to use the sliding functions you need to activate the framework in pluginarea and set the framework option to include the needed javascript into the header.

Usage 

1. Go into the new King Framework Options Panel and activate the  "Insert Sliding Javascript to Head"

2. go to the login widget options and activate "Use Sliding Box"

3. The difficult part:

You have to fill the custom html options fields. The Box needs to be wrapped in a colappsible elemet(div/li/p) with special ID and you have to give the click event to some element. Since this can vary with your blogtemplate i left this up to you .

Standart Options which should work with the default Template: (please check the " when copy/paste)

HTML Before Widget: <li>

HTML before widget Title: <h2 onClick="loginslide1.toggle();" ><li>

HTML after widget Title: </h2><div id="login1">

HTML after widget: </div></li>

Check out the third screenshot to see the default config. When you have multiple Boxes you just have to adapt the numbers in loginslide1.toggle -> loginslide1.toggle and of course the id login1->login2

Download

 king-login_0.5.zip (03.07.2006 00:47)

Last night i found the solution. I got inspired by a WordPress RSS Plugin made by the SimplePie Team. The Plugin did not threw me of my chair but SimplePie provides a pretty neat looking RSS-Feed-Mangeling – Class  which i instinctivly had to check.  The time was well spend and the SimplePie RSS class is really doing a good job.

Anyway enough of those boring "under the hood"-details, you came here for an RSS Widget. King RSS allows you to have a different looking feed in every widget. It has HTML fields with placeholders (%title% / %link% ..) to configure the feed title information and each feed list item. If course you also have some switches to play with, there is an Ad-Stripper, a caching mechanism, configurable feed text length, No. of feed items …go check the features.

Before i forget, you can also use a feed function inside your template (Documentation comming soon). 

Features

Version 0.52

- NEW: Remote Version Check.

- Bugfixes: Problems when displaying only in a special category/Area, faulty stripads call.  Thanks to Vidal

initial Version 0.5 

- HTML Fields which take template Code for displaying the RSS. Those fields have placeholders for:

• RSS Feed Title Information: Site URL / Feed Image /RSS URL / RSS Icon
• RSS Item Stuff: author / categories / date  / link / text

- Configurable feed item date with php time syntax

- Configurable feed item text length or full article

- No. of feed items to display 

- Switch to default settings

- Configurable Error Message when feed can´t be reached

- strip ads out of the feed (google / Doubleklick / pheedo)

- Caching mechanism with option to clear cache folder (there´s is no cachetime field, because SimplePie is working on a better fetching)

– function to use inside your templates (indipenditly from widget)

- HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- Set on which Website Area to show the Widget. Options are:

• show "NOT on special page area" which can be combined with "Show in Category" (List/Article)
• show on Home / Search / Archive / Author or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a Category (with ID). For Category Listings and also Articles

You find all Options explained in the WordPress Codex in Conditional Tags  make sure to definitly read this if you are using those Options!

- based on the king widget framework

Screenshot / Screencast

English Admin Screens

 king_rss_english_admin_screenshot 1.jpg

 king_rss_english_admin_screenshot 2.jpg

German Admin Screens

 king_rss_german_admin_screenshot_1.jpg

 king_rss_german_admin_screenshot 2.jpg

Screencast (English)

Quick and dirty swf video with a rough overview of the basic features

 Comming Features

- Whatever you might suggest… 

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-rss.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework in /king-includes into /plugins (need new version from 18.06.2006)!!

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King RSSWidget on one of your sidebars, set default Options first and then play with it.

-  Your Cache folder MUST have write Permissions  depending on your server (777). I´m using the same cache folder like WordPress, in "wp-content/cache/" , so in most cases the permissions should already be set.

Usage 

I did not had the opportunity to test all kinds of RSS Feeds. Therefore there might be some hidden Bugs or more needed features.

Atm don´t have the time to write an extensive tutorial. If you are a total beginner in html and wordpress you probably just want to use the original wp rss widget. If you still want to try i made a default switch to give you a descent start.

If you want to use the RSS Function inside your templates, please stay tuned i´ll document that after i´ll get the first feedback. 

I have changed the License. It is not GPL for this widget. You are free to use it in private and charity enviroment. If you are using it for commercial purposes please contact me for a little licence fee and enhanced support.

Download

 king-rss_0.52.zip (22.06.2006 15:14)

I´ve added support for searching only in a specific Category, by choosing one from a dropdown menu.

I implemented a spellchecking on the search words, which will suggest the right word or term. When found you can klick it to search your site again.

Both Options can be disabled of course. This is not the end of all wit’s. I have more on my mind, but first want to wait for your feedback.
 

Features

Version 0.51 features: 

- up to 10 Search Widgets

- Option to Search only in Category choosen from Dropdown

- Option to use Spellchecking on Search words and terms

- 4 HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget and title or leave empty and use defaults from functions.php

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- Set on which Website Area to show the Widget. Options are:

• show on Home / Search / Archive or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a special Category.  If in list List or on single Article

Screenshot

not yet (only 3 Switches + the same options like the other King Widgets )

 Comming Features

- Whatever you might suggest… 

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-search.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework in /king-includes into /plugins (need new version from 10.06.2006)

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Search Widget on one of your sidebars and play with the options.

Download

 king-search_0.52.zip

I´ve added Support for the Events Calendar Plugin and you can set on which site area to show the Calendar on. Check the features for more details.
 

Features

Version 0.61 features: 

- up to 10 Calendar Widgets

- use the normal WP Calendar or display the Calendar of the EventsCalendar Plugin

- 4 HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget and title or leave empty and use defaults from functions.php

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- Set on which Website Area to show the Widget. Options are:

• show on Home / Search / Archive or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a special Category.  If in list List or on single Article

You find all Options explained in the WordPress Codex in Conditional Tags  make sure to definitly read this if you are using those Options!

– new js admin menu

- based on the king widget framework

Screenshot

English Admin Screen

 Comming Features

- maybe implement more display options from Event Calendar

- maybe implement other Calendars like Google or 30 Boxes 

- Whatever you might suggest…
 

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-calendar.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework in /king-includes into /plugins, if you don´t have it already

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Calendar Widget on one of your sidebars and play with the options.

Download

 king-calendar_0.61.zip (14.05.2006 11:26)

don´t forget to download the king-widget framework if you don´t have it already

Please don´t hesitate to give me a feedback if this is usefull or if you think you found a bug!

Have fun! 

Georg Leciejewski

If you are a normal WordPress user, this Widget gives you enough power over the linklists to keep you out of the template code.

About 20 switches should give you all of the control you´ve ever dreamt of.

Features

Version 0.65

- Bugfix : duplicate output when category filter was set. Sort order did not show the set value in adminform. Thanks to  Jeremy Douglass.

- Remote Version Check. Colours the Plugin in Plugin-Admin List if there is a new Version. 

Version 0.64

- Bugfix: sql error when linit was not set. Thanks to MrPapa for pointing this out in detail!!

- NEW Option to Copy Options from another Widget. Save the time to set all Option again!

Version 0.62 Bugfix:

- the before and after widget/Title was always shown even when only a special site area was selected 

Version 0.6 features: 

- up to 10 Link Widgets

- set all Options like in Link Category Manager or use already set Link Category options

- Set Link Box Standard Options and forget about all the other fancy switches -> for Beginners

- 4 HTML fields to customize HTML before/after widget and title or leave empty and use defaults from functions.php

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included in framework)

- Set on which Website Area to show the Widget. Options are:

• show on Home / Search / Archive or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a special Category.  If in list List or on single Article

You find all Options explained in the WordPress Codex in Conditional Tags  make sure to definitly read this if you are using those Options!

– new js admin menu

- based on the king widget framework

Screenshot

German + English Admin Screen

Comming Features

- show only to selected group 

- What else would you like to see? Please comment!  

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king-links.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the widget Framework in /king-includes into /plugins, if you have not already another King Widget installed

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Link Widget on one of your sidebars and play with the options.

- HINT: set the "Standart Options" Checkbox in the advanced panel to get an easy start

Download

Version 0.64

 king-links_0.65.zip (22.06.2006 08:36)

don´t forget to get the king-widget framework if you don´t have it already (from 22.06.06 or newer)

Please don´t hesitate to give me a feedback if this is usefull or if you think you found a bug!

Have fun! 

Georg Leciejewski

Those of you that are already using my King widgets might askes themselves why to upgrade .. well i implemented a better AJAX foldable Admin Menu, made some css improvements and cleaned up the folder structure.

Check out this little screencast (sorry for the format was just a fast shot):

 new_ajax_menu_1.wmv (283.75 KB )

The Framework includes:

• one Language file for all King Widgets (currently only german)
• CSS Styles for widgets
• JS used in Widgets
• Images for Adminarea
• php libraries for Forms and Admin Head includes

Since those are a a couple of files, it is kinda hard to give the framework an overall numbering scheme. Therefore I´ll keep track of the changes in a changelog.txt file and go by date. The php and css files aditionally have an internal version numbering.

For future changes I´ll always put up the whole framework (Folder king-includes) so you can simply replace your existing files with that. 
Yes i know i need a public SVN .. we are working on that and some more changes to make our wordpress plugins, themes and widgets easier available.

Changelog

Version 0.70 – 03.09.06

- new function to have a comma separated list in the "where ot show on sitearea "

- updated language file 

02.07.2006 

- Framework now has version numbering + remote version check with a  Plugininterface to accomplish that
– added a switch in the framework plugin options to enable javascript includes for the new sliding widgets feature
– minor bugfixes + language strings

- Experimental!
added functions to have a widgets options dump for easy transfer of set options. The King Login Wdget is right now the first to test this functionality. Other widget will follow when it proves itself stable

Inside the folder there is also a changelog file

Install

Place the folder in the zip -> "king-includes" into WordPress Plugins folder -> wp-content/plugins/

Activate the Framework in Adminarea. The Activation is mainly to have a remote version check. With the time there will  more options added to it.

Known issues 

CSS Background Images in Widgets Admin are not shown.

If you have your WordPress installation inside a subfolder on your webspace e.g. ww.mySuperSite/wordpress/ you need to adopt the background image pathes in the CSS-Style Sheet. Those background images give your widget headers and the king widget menus a nicer look.

Look for those lines in king-includes/css/king_widget.css  

background:url(/wp-content/plugins/…gif)

append your install sub directory in front of the line:

background:url(/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/…gif)

Internet Explorer shows all Menu´s open

I tried 4 hours to get by a ie bug and have not found a decent solution yet. If you are still using IE,  well … that´s your problem, you will not be able to see those nice sliding menu´s. The bug shut the widgets admin menu´s  directly after you opened them.

Please get yourself a descent browser:

The good News … I implemented a css style hack so that you can still set all King Widget Options and therefore use all King Widgets. All Menu Options of the widget are initally expanded.
Hopefully one of our CSS Freakz can give me a hand with this, or maybe you find a solution!

You are already using some King Widgets

Replace the king-includes folder with the new one. Grab yourself the new Version of the King widget you are using.

Download

Version  0.70

 king-includes_0.70.zip (03.09.2006 14:49)

Version 0.68  from 03.07. July 2006 

  king-includes_0.68.zip (03.07.2006 00:42)

PreviousVersion  from 22. June 2006

 king-includes_22_06_2006.zip (22.06.2006 08:45)

Have Fun.. 

Well read on and it might convince you.

Features

Version 0.69 NEW Features 

- Randomize Widget Content. Split the content with the <!–more–> Tag and it will shuffle the text or php code inside.

- Remote Version checking

- Option for using the Javascript Slide Open/Close function

- Where NOT to show. Select Side Area where the widget is not be shown on (i.e. everywhere but Home) this can be combined with the show in category

- changed the license type

Version 0.63: 

- 20 Text Boxes

- set HTML before/after seperatly for each Widget OR takes widget before/after HTML from functions.php if left empty 

- Menu in which Website Area to show the Widget on.  New Options are:

• show on Home / Search / Archive or 404 page
• show on all or special single Page. You can set the id or slug of the Page where to show
• show on all or special single Article You can set the id or slug of the Article where to show
• show on all or special Category Listing You can set the id of the Category where to show
• Show if inside a special Category.  If in list List or on single Article

You find all Options explained in the WordPress Codex in Conditional Tags  make sure to definitly read this if you are using those Options!

– new ajax menu

Version 0.5

- Choose whether to have php or just html in the widget. With php in the widget you can for example use any WordPress call. So if you are missing any WordPress or Plugin functions in widgets insert them there.

- choose in which category the widget shall appear

- 4 html fields to custmize html before/after widget and title 

- based on the king widget framework 

- Fully localizable with gettext Translation (German Translation included)

Screenshot

German and English Admin Screens (Version 0.6+  foldable menu, updated screens are comming)

 Comming Features

- Randomly show box Content devided by <!–more–> Tag like in AdRotator. so you also rotate php code or anything else

- Option to show widget to a specific Role -> use wordpress capabilities (I will give this a priority if someone asks/pays for it)
-  set initial JS Open or Close State + JS Open/Close Time
- make use of is_home / is_single or other conditional tags -> what do you think?

- What else would you like to see? Please comment!  

Install

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king_text.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy the King Widget Framework in /king-includes into /plugins if you have not already another King Widget installed

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Text Widget on one of your sidebars and play with the options. 

Usage 

Show Content Randomly

- insert the <!–more–> tag between you text or php content

Use JS Slide Open/Close

- Hint: When used together with Random Content the Javascript does not instantly recognize the new height of the box. After toggling it the height is ok.  

Here are the steps to be taken. If you don´t understand those you can simply forget about this function

1. Go into the new King Framework Options Panel and activate the  "Insert Sliding Javascript to Head"

2. go to the text widget html options and activate "Use Sliding Box"

3. The difficult part:

You have to fill the custom html options fields(or use this inside the textbox). The Box needs to be wrapped in a collappsible elemet(div/li/p) with aspecial ID and you have to give the click event to some element. Since this can vary with your blogtemplate i left this up to you.

Standart Options which should work with the default Template: (please check the " when copy/paste)

HTML Before Widget: <li>

HTML before widget Title: <h2 onClick="textslide1.toggle();" ><li>

HTML after widget Title: </h2><div id="text1">

HTML after widget: </div></li>

When you have multiple Boxes you just have to adapt the numbers in textslide1.toggle -> textslide2.toggle and of course the id text1 -> text2 

Upgrade

For Version 0.69 you also need to get the changed King Widget Framework which is now available separate.

After upgrading your framework just replace king-test.php with the new one. Your textboxes content should remain unchanged.

Download

Version 0.69

  king-text_0.69.zip (05.07.2006 01:13)

don´t forget to get the king-widget framework Version 0.68 or greater.

Version 0.63 

 king-text_0.63.zip (09.05.2006 16:13)

Please don´t hesitate to give me a feedback if this is usefull or if you think you found a bug!

Have fun! 

Georg Leciejewski

Widgets will revolutionize the way normal users can interact with wordpress.

Therefore i wanted to write a plugin for one of the most used  (and at least by me, most hated) wordpress template placeholder … the list_cats() It´s used for the category listing in the sidebar or somewhere else in your Website.
This function has a big ass eighteen Variables long parameter list, which let me struggle again and again. Also because there are big differences between setting a var to "false" or "0" (nicely mixed up in template-functions-category.php Line: 277 ).
I always ended up in an hour of trial and error until i had my custom category navigation build.

Anyway this WordPress Widget will hopefully wipe away your fear of the list categories function and makes it easy to screw around in the category navigation.

Features / Changelog 

Version 0.93

– BUG when selected show only in xy Category widget would show everywhere (thanks Klaus)

Version 0.92

– NEW Remote Version check

- NEW Complete "Where To Show" Options. With the new option to have a comma seperated list of siteArea´s (single Pages/ID/Slugs) where to show

- NEW copy Options from another category widget
– NEW Options dumper
 

Version 0.85

- small fixes to ensure compatibility with new framework structure
– nicer JS Menu using moofx (framework improvement)
– Help Titles are now shown only in widget area (framework improvement)
– changed widget admin title back to "King Cat xy" because with my widget title hack you need the place to show the real title

Version 0.8

- Enhanced JS Navigation for Widget Options. It now fits better on small Monitors and does not overwelm you that much

- Option to use the Fold Category Navigation if installed

- Bugfix in Setting of Default Option

- renamed widget header to "King Category Menu xx" 

- Moved Framework into new Folder ->plugins/king-includes/ 

- moved Admin Head includes into framework 

Known Issues:

- The JS Accordeon Admin Menu is now closing the right way if multiple instances of the widget are used. But not in IE..the settings are not influenced by this! Read more in the Framework Article.

Maybe some JavaScript Pro can assist me with that … Help!

————– 

Version 0.71

- MULTIPLE Category Menu´s

- 4 HTML fields to customize before/after Widget and Title 

- Option to insert default category menu options 

- enhanced underlying Framework (If you don´t want to change the engine .. no need to look under the hood) 

Version 0.6 

- 15 Option fields to set all Category List options – list_cats() in Admin Widget Area resulting in a fully customizable Category menu without coding.

- option for debugging output in Frontend

- js help tooltips

- full gettext translation currently available languages: German / English

Screenshots

 Version 0.7  English and German Admin Screen.Please Klick to enlarge.

 Comming Features

- Option to show a Category menu only under a given Category. Very usefull if you have deeply nested Categories… if you need this urgendly write me because it´s nearly finished

- copy Options from another category widget

- Options dumper

- option to toggle help titles on/off because they apply to every label elemet in admin area or maybe different implementation method (Ajax)

- fold the admin menu to group the options into smaller sets because the popup is kinda big right now on small monitors and might be confusing for beginners 

- Foldable category list 

- more than one Category Navigation like text or rss widget fields

- before and after fields for layout can be set in Admin Area

Install 

Of course you should have wordpress widgets installed and activated. If not, you can find the download and install instructions over at automattic.com

- Copy king_categories.php into your plugins widget folder -> where your widgets.php is !!!

- Copy king-includes (the widget Framework) into plugins 

- activate in Pluginarea.

- Drag the King Categories Widget on one of your sidebars and play with the options. In the Advanced Options Tab you´ll find a switch for inserting WordPress Defaults to get a Start.

Update 

- Copy king_categories.php over your existing File.

- Since the Framework was moved you should delete the existing king-includes folder and copy the new king-includes into the /plugins Rootfolder

- The name of the Widget has changed (again sorry) so you need to drop it again onto your sidebar

Download

Version 0.93

 king-categories_0.93.zip (05.09.2006 09:47)

Version 0.92

 - needs the King Widget framework  from version 0.70 and up

 king-categories_0.92.zip (03.09.2006 14:50)

Version 0.85 

 - the King Widget framework is now keept seperate, make sure you get it too

 king-categories_0.85.zip (07.05.2006 03:35)

Old Versions

Version 0.8

-  including king-includes (the widget framework) svn Version 102
– german mo and po files 

 king_categories_0.8.zip (23.04.2006 19:38)

Version 0.71

– including german po and mo files
– including king widget framework in king_widgets_inc

 king_categories_0.7.zip (15.04.2006 15:34)

Please don´t hesitate to give me a feedback if this is usefull or if you think you found a bug!

Have fun! 

Georg Leciejewski