Recent Widgets
We’ve just pushed two new widgets live, based on your requests. The first is Recent Posts which, as you may have guessed, shows the most recent posts. This is a great way to drive people who come in to your archives to the latest stuff.
The second is Recent Comments, which was actually the single most requested widget. It shows names and links to the last 5 comments left on your blog.
Be sure to continue to let us know what kind of widgets you’re interested in. We’re looking at adding some more widget configuration in the next iteration.
Mar 7th at 1:59 am
Awesome! maybe a widget that provides a choice between a calendar and text archive.
Mar 7th at 3:02 am
Please please please please please include a widget that lets me display my tagline regardless of which template I am using. The template I like best — Toni — won’t display my tagline. And the other templates I like, which *do* display my tagline — Regulus and Girl in Green — don’t load right on older Macs.
Mar 7th at 3:49 am
a widget that shows the latest entries from our wordpress friends..
or a widget that shows us the lastest posts from the feeds we want..
Mar 7th at 3:55 am
Calendar would be great.
Mar 7th at 4:49 am
Hey I noticed that you added SSL support. Nice!
Mar 7th at 5:44 am
This is nice, but a search engine that is provided along side recent blogs would be even nicer. Just something that I wish I had.
Mar 7th at 6:34 am
yup, a calendar widget would be really, really nice.
Mar 7th at 8:17 am
Nice additions, thank you!
Mar 7th at 8:41 am
Any plans, to extend this functionality to other themes?
Mar 7th at 9:24 am
Thanks guys! I would appreciate a calendar widget…
Mar 7th at 10:15 am
Recent comments plus recent posts !!! Wow and wow. You guys rule.
Thanks to whoever implemented that. Major feature, much appreciated
Mar 7th at 11:15 am
Excellent widgets, guys. A calendar widget would hardly go amiss, too. I like how customisation within skins has increased.
Mar 7th at 12:56 pm
Matt awesome thanks great I am going to put them on blog right away
Mar 7th at 2:35 pm
The calendar, pretty pretty please. That would encourage me to use some those templates that don’t have it…
Mar 7th at 2:43 pm
GREAT! I hope the Hemmingway Theme, since has no sidebard, might as well include the new “recent comment” features.
Mar 7th at 3:04 pm
And the categories are now in alphabetical order, nice.
Mar 7th at 4:05 pm
I love the Recent Comments widget, but it’s not available for Regulus even though Regulus has an editable sidebar under the Theme Editor.
Can you add Recent Comments to the sidebar editor for Regulus? From surfing around WordPress.com I know a lot of sites use Regulus. I love the way it can be customized. I’m sure a lot of other Regulus users will want Recent comments, too! 
Thanks!
Mar 7th at 5:27 pm
I am Regulus user, like Gymshoes, I too want \’ Recent Comment\’.
Mar 7th at 6:16 pm
Calendar Widget for all themes would be very nice!
Mar 7th at 7:16 pm
Love the widgets, such a cool feature, and very easy to use. Thank you!
Mar 7th at 7:23 pm
Would it be possible to add a note in the description of each theme that says if it\’s Widget-compatible (or has any other options/features, for that matter)? It\’s getting to the point where there\’s too many to check them all out one-by-one.
Matt mentioned tagging themes in his last post. That would do the trick nicely.
Mar 7th at 7:51 pm
Cool one!
Mar 7th at 9:29 pm
You need to let some of the older themes use widgets. It\’s a great feature, but alot of the really nice themes don\’t support it!
Mar 7th at 9:53 pm
I agree with Brendan. It would be nice to have widgets enabled on themes such as Pool.
Mar 7th at 10:53 pm
I would really like a calendar too
Mar 7th at 11:06 pm
how about a tag cloud widget??
Mar 8th at 2:57 am
I second the request for a widget that lets you leave in your tagline. I can’t use most of the themes precisely because of that.
Mar 8th at 6:51 am
* A spacer would be nice, to place between widgets that are too close.
* A tag cloud would be nice.
* I think all widgets should work in all themes.
* I think RSS feeds should have a recognisable RSS icon! Subscription to my feeds are very important – it’s not easy if you can’t find it.
* Adsense widget.
* Email me (the author) widget with email icon
(PS – Firefox thinks your security certificate is dodgy)
Mar 8th at 12:01 pm
How about extending the widgets to work with teh green girl theme?! please please
Mar 8th at 3:47 pm
Adsense widget would be a great…I would also like to see RSS feeds widget…
Mar 8th at 11:37 pm
Great to see the Recent Comments widget, so now I can change from Regulus – many thanks
Mar 9th at 12:26 am
I know I can add a picture of myself through links, but it would be nice if there was a widget for an about me box. It could contain a picture and a little text. A lot like how Blogger does it.
Mar 9th at 3:06 am
I’d love to have Flickr and del.icio.us feed widgets. I’d also like a heirarchical category list widget, too.
Mar 9th at 4:13 pm
I’m wondering if/when widgets will be added to those themes that don’t currently have them. For example, I rather like the look and feel of my current template, but would like the recent post widget.
Mar 9th at 10:14 pm
flickr, del.icio.us, and Asides would all be very welcome.
Mar 9th at 11:35 pm
Calendar is something that would be greatly appreciated on some of the other themes.
A separator would be great, especially since the search boxes generally hug too close to other widgets.
Other ones I might consider using: Flickr, RSS-roll
Mar 10th at 5:14 pm
I would appreciate the ‘recent widgets’ on the Green Marinee’s theme please.
Mar 10th at 10:21 pm
an about me widget and a way to add third-party components such as blogbeat or measuremap.
Mar 10th at 10:59 pm
I 100% support a calendar widget!
Mar 10th at 11:00 pm
I have noticed that you have added more widget options to the sidebar…(well atleast in the Quentin theme, I’m not too sure about the others) but I just wanted to say thank you very much.
Mar 11th at 8:49 pm
Pushing to make WP.com THE blogging platafarm to rule them all. Widgets such as these were highly needed. Simple but huge improvement. Keep up the good work!
Mar 12th at 12:02 pm
I’m one of those who must have a calendar, and I always add in the php code for the calendar when I’m running my own wordpress elsewhere, no matter what theme I’m using.
Mar 13th at 1:43 am
Too bad that this only works in Windows
(even with Firefox 1.5.0.1 under Debian it won’t work)
Mar 13th at 1:54 am
As soon as I say something, the oposite happens. I verified that thing a lot of times and didn’t work. I post here and then it works? LOL
sorry!!!
Mar 14th at 9:13 pm
I would love a widget that lets people get to a random next post! Otherwise, keep it up!
Mar 14th at 9:28 pm
an about widget would be great and a calendar, of course.
thank you
Mar 16th at 12:18 pm
Great, thanks. I would like to see something that would allow commentors to subscribe to a post. So, anyone leaving a comment would by informed via email when somebody else comments to that post.
Mar 16th at 6:05 pm
I agree with Jim McKeeth (post #32)… profile/picture widget for the page would be cool
Mar 19th at 3:50 pm
Regulus does NOT get widgets, again!
There’s been additions to the widgets feature available and Regulus, my 2nd fav theme, after Hemingway, does not get it even now! I can understand that it might be difficult to ensure that all themes get the same functionalities (eg: Hemingway is…
Mar 21st at 5:13 pm
http://bloghub.org
This is wordpress again. But here, there are a lot of skins.
Why?
You don’t like these or what?
Or there is something other?
Mar 24th at 4:52 am
Checking on the updates for Hemingway. None so far. But I hope you guys would also consider putting “Top Post Commented”.
Thanks again.
Mar 24th at 10:14 pm
How about a widget for a Counter which tracks all viewer’s referral addresses and their IP addresses too along with visit information (Date, Time and Duration).
Jun 19th at 8:14 am
Tag Cloud would be most appreciated. I enjoy tag cloud for category browsing on a blog (à la del.icio.us) I cover a lot of categories, and I find the tag cloud uses up a lot less space than simply listing all of the categories one after the other.
Jul 14th at 8:36 pm
Recent Posts Widget is great,but i cann’t adjust the number of the post entries,it will be always 10 right now. Is there anyway to set it?