The Image Widget, Plus News from Support
Last month, the Support team (also known as Happiness Engineers) got together to brainstorm new ways of providing you with the features and resources you need.
Out of that meetup came a number of improvements and features, like the RSS Links Widget, introduced earlier this month. Another is the Image Widget, launching today.
In the past, it was necessary to use HTML in a text widget to display images in your sidebar. Now all you have to do is plop a URL in the image widget. The rest is done for you. If you’d like to set a title, alternate text, and image size, it’ll do that, too.
And there’s more cool stuff coming your way:
We’ve made some improvements to the Support contact form, and a better search for Support is in the works. We’ve made some internal changes, too, that will help our growing team answer your questions even more efficiently.
There’s now a Hugs page to display some of the positive feedback we receive from those of you who write in to Support. It brightens our day to hear that we’ve helped out, so we’re sharing a bit of that love. 
Maybe most excitingly, we’re going to start providing Support in other languages — a much-requested feature. The first of these will be French, with several others to follow. We’ll post announcements here when each is launched.
Posted: Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 3:16 pm. Filed in Language, Localization, Support, Widgets.
Oct 2nd at 7:34 pm
You Happiness Engineers totally rock. I love WordPress because of the features and the support I get from you. I love ya!
Oct 3rd at 12:59 am
This is awesome! Thank you so much!!
Oct 3rd at 6:38 am
As always WP has come up with a useful widget. It’s a useful feature for those who don’t know HTML but otherwise it seems a redundant one. It will be helpful if the WP people provide us with some widgets like Google Friend Connect and CBox. Hope they are in your pipeline… Anyways a good job. Thanx.
Oct 3rd at 9:06 am
Brilliant. I really needed this one.
Oct 3rd at 10:06 am
Great! Thanks!
I go and try it!
Oct 3rd at 10:14 am
Its a nice add up.
Oct 3rd at 11:17 pm
This is cool – thanks for simplifying it for people not familiar wiht html
Oct 4th at 12:43 am
That’s a Great Value………good job for WP team
Oct 4th at 2:36 am
Is there no new theme coming?
Oct 4th at 3:56 am
Very nice.
Oct 4th at 9:57 am
The closing of this post IS definitely most exciting to hear. Can’t wait to see your update, Heather!
Oct 4th at 12:52 pm
This is something absolutely wonderful. I struggle with this everytime, although I have done it several times. Now its become easy. Thanks.
Oct 4th at 4:55 pm
We were waiting for that one!!!
Well done!
Oct 4th at 11:14 pm
Hello Heather, bang up! Very interesting
Oct 5th at 1:50 am
Yay! All we need now is more and more themes! I really love the image widget (I was just wondering how to use an image, and viola)!
Oct 5th at 4:42 am
That’s a really cool feature! I’m definitely going to give it a go. Thanks WP!!
Oct 5th at 4:52 am
LOL… what raincoaster said.
Oct 5th at 6:22 am
can you make all themes dispaly the hide tags option? thank you so much!
Oct 5th at 2:02 pm
good one WP
can’t wait for a Jaiku widget
Oct 5th at 2:28 pm
Its Great!! Im already using ‘em on my wordpress blogs!! I hope the next move would be to somehow make a widget to put profile songs on wordpress weblogs. So that when you enter a wordpress blog, it would start playing itself.
Oct 5th at 4:27 pm
This is the reason this is the best platform for blogs and why I only recommend wordpress to my clients.
Keep em coming. I and many others are very grateful.
Marvin
Oct 7th at 8:20 pm
Heather,
Thanks for the tip about adding images to the Media Library. I did not realize that the images in the media library have a unique URL. And it is easy to find the URL by going to the library, find the image, and select view. Perfect!