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WordSmith Sidebar Widget

A very small WordPress sidebar widget that displays the word of the day from Wordsmith.org

by Ryan Nutt · github.com/ryannutt/wordsmith-sidebar · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/ryannutt/wordsmith-sidebar/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.

Readme github.com/ryannutt/wordsmith-sidebar ↗

This is a very small WordPress sidebar widget that adds the word of the day from Wordsmith.org to your site.

Settings

There aren't any.

The only real options are the URL to the Wordsmith feed and the length of time that WordPress stores a transient of the feed. It defaults to an hour. If you want to change that you'll need to edit the PHP.

Styling

Again, not any aside from a CSS class wrapped around everything.

The HTML output looks like this.

<div class="widget-text ws-wrapper">
<h3>The Word</h3>
<p>The definition of the word</p>
</div>

The whole thing is wrapped in a div with the class ws-wrapper. You're probably going to want to style from that. Otherwise it will be a very boring block of text.