Making a standalone sidebar widget

Its pretty easy. In your wp-content/plugins/widgets directory, create a file called sbar.php (or any other name you like), and insert the following code:

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: sbarwidget
Plugin URI: http://
Description: Adds a sidebar widget for ...
Author: You
Version: 1.0
Author URI: http://

*/
function widget_sbar_init() {

if ( !function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )
		return;

	function widget_sbar() {

		echo $before_widget;
/* put your code here */

		echo $after_widget;
	}

	register_sidebar_widget('Sbar', 'widget_sbar');
} 

	add_action('plugins_loaded', 'widget_sbar_init');
?>

This is pretty much a basic framework for a sidebar widget.

Hi, I have a related question….where do I find the wp-content/plugins/widgets directory ?? I’ve read all the info on uploading plugins, but I don’t know where this directory is.

Could you give me an example of a syntax error (complete error code)? Usually this happens when you’re trying to put html code inbetween php code. Try in the example above to do this:

echo $before_widget;
?>
<!-- put your code here -->
<?php
echo $after_widget;

To clarify: what I found in Options/Miscellaneous was:
wp-content/uploads

I also found this help page elsewhere in WP:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins

And you’re willing to pay for something which would take about 2 minutes to build and upload? Wow. Here you go (it’s on the house).

After I posted it, I was afraid the things you said where going to happen. But I think you’ve solved it in the right way.