Let me say Happy Holidays to the Movable Type user community. Thank you for helping to create one of the best and more extensible blogging platforms today. As a special holiday gift to the Movable Type users, I have just release a new plugin: a Movable Type Sidebar Manager.
Using this plugin, Movable Type users can install, select and order all of their weblog's sidebars and sidebar widgets crazy-easily. Just create a new sidebar, give it a name, populate it with the widgets you want, and then order those widgets within that sidebar.
Sidebar Manager is not exclusively a user facing product. It is a platform for other Movable Type developers to build widget plugins on top of. For example, you can create a plugin whose sole purpose is to install a template module or "widget" to a person's weblog providing users with a configurable Google Map, or a countdown to the next Harry Potter movie, or you name it.
Anyway, be warned... it is an alpha version. It works (I wouldn't release it if I didn't) but it does have bugs (report yours here).
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