The beginnings of the Runstoppable sidebar widget.
Published 4.18.2007 by ~mattg
That’s right, I found some time. I guess that’s what happens when everyone’s sick.
On the right is a little widget titled “My Runs.” It currently links to my Runs feed from Runstoppable.com. If you click on the date, the details will expand to show the date (again… yes it’s stupid), the route, distance, time, shoe, and any notes that I made. It’s not bad for my first try. If the run has a route attached, you can even click on the link to view the route.
My eventual goal is to parse out all of the info in that summary and allow the user to customize the widget in such a way that they choose what information gets displayed. Basically, you’ll have a number of check boxes that correspond to the standard fields, and you can turn them on or off. Runstoppable also allows you to input custom fields, so I should probably handle that as well.
Not bad for my first Wordpress widget, although it was based off of the RSS widget that comes with the Sidebar Widgets plugin.
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