One thing that absolutely drives me insane is people that recommend Wordpress Plugins, but are clearly not using them. Now if you like a plugin and you want to recommend it, but you no longer have a need for, said plugin, then explain how you used it and why you no longer use it. That would be acceptable. But don’t write an article pushing a plugin that you clearly do not use and have not told me what your experience with the plugin was.
For example, I have been trying to find a nice tabbed sidebar widget. I cannot tell you how many blogs popup on a Google Search that are recommending this tabbed widget or that tabbed widget, but clearly do not have a tabbed anything in their sidebar. And, rarely do they say what their experience is with tabbed widgets and why they are no longer using one. Even if they use it on a different Blog, please tell us about the experience, give us a link to where it is used, so that we can taste it, see it, and smell it. Please don’t clutter the internet with irrevelent drivel that is not helpful.
That being said… I found two widgets that so far give me multiple tabs in the Wordpress sidebar. I am not using either of them…
Why am I not using them?
Well, the first widget that I tested looke like so…
The plugin gave me several options to add to the tabs; options like, Recent Posts, My Favorites, Recent Comments, Categories, Tag Clouds, Blog Rolls, etc.. In my case I wanted to start using it with two tabs - “Recent Posts” & “My Favorites”. The problem I had with the widget and the reason that I am not using it is that I could not figure out how the widget was determining which of my posts were “My Favorites”. It was not obvious, or intuitive, so I still have the plugin installed, but it is currently not on my side bar. If I ever resolve this issue, then I will use the widget. And, at that time I will add a link to the plugin on this site. By the way this plugin was entitled: Tabbed Widget.
The other plugin I found was called Fun With Sidebars: I am not even going to comment on this. The reason being, if you go to the codex it says it is no longer supported. If and when I begin using a tabbed widget I will reference it here. Thanks!
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