Majordojo

It has been less than twelve hours since the release of Sidebar Manager, and I already have got some wonderful feedback and questions. One in particular I would like to highlight:

I am, however, a little confused on how the whole PERL thing works and how a user would add a widget to the list. This is where I separate myself from the developer world and place myself in the software user world. Do you have to add a new line of PERL to the MT:Template file for every new widget?

Absolutely not. Users need only click on the “Templates” button, and then the “Modules” tab, and create a new Template Module with a name that begins with the letters: “Sidebar: “. That’s it.

Developers on the other hand can use a little Perl code to automate the process users sometimes have to do manually. To create a template module using Perl, code you could execute during your plugin’s installation process, use the code discussed previously. It too I think is very simple. But I would love to hear how it could be even simpler!