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    <title>Introducing a Sidebar Manager for Movable Type</title>
    <summary>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...</summary>
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      <![CDATA[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 <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/">Movable Type Sidebar Manager</a>.

<a href="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/images/sidebar.png"><img alt="sidebar.png" border="0" src="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/images/sidebar-thumb.png" width="300" height="266" /></a>]]>
      <![CDATA[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 <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/archives/2005/12/introducing_a_sidebar_manager.php">platform for other Movable Type developers</a> to build widget plugins on top of. For example, you can create a plugin whose sole purpose is to <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/archives/2005/12/how_to_install_a_widget_via_a.php">install a template module or "widget" to a person's weblog</a> 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 <a href="http://www.majordojo.com/projects/SidebarManager/archives/2005/12/known_issues.php">bugs</a> (<a href="http://www.majordojo.com/help/ttx.cgi">report yours here</a>).]]>
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