The following is a snippet of Perl code that shows how to create a sidebar widget that can be integrated with Sidebar Manager. As you can see, all you need to do is create a template module with a name prefixed by “Sidebar: ” and Sidebar Manager will assume it is a side widget to be manipulated.

require MT::Template;
my $tmpl = MT::Template->new;
$tmpl->blog_id($blog_id);
$tmpl->type('custom');
<b>$tmpl->name('Sidebar: Example Widget');</b>
$tmpl->text(<<END_TMPL);
Your template code goes here.
END_TMPL
$tmpl->save;