All I wanted to do was put a dumb little widget, preferably flash—something dynamic, in my sidebar. I thought it might be nice to add a little color, a little variety to my blog. Good intentions, indeed.
But no. WordPress didn’t want to play along. The sidebar, a collection of so-called widgets, allows you to add blocks of text, and thus presumably code. Unfortunately, WordPress likes to take that code, rip it to shreds and leave you curled up crying on the floor. It refused to let me do any kind of flash…anything, and even deconstructed the offical Flickr badges. I eventually found something somewhere that was just a dynamically created image of my last uploads, and so the code is pure HTML linking to the source…or something. I don’t know. It works. It’s nowhere near as pretty as I’d like it to be, but I’ll live with it…for now.
Watch out, crappy little sidebar thing, your days are numbered.
