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WordPress widgets earmark users to customize their blogs using new themes and new customizations. Andy Skelton, the WordPress developer has announced new WordPress Widgets as a plugin that are useful to the blogging community. A widget is a plugin tool that can be placed on the WordPress blogs sidebars. This is an easy feature as there is no requirement of any knowledge such as how to edit a web page or html, with only simple drag and drops using the grow over. Customization and functionality of the blogs are made easier. There is no need to enter codes in order to customize a blog page using widget.

One can always use external widgets from other web pages such as http://www.widgetbox.com to further customize their blog pages and users are not restricted to using only WordPress standard widgets. This website provides numerous amounts of widgets for users to use for their blog, web page or profile. One can choose from different categories such as jokes, movies, music, sports and news.

It also provides guides to steps of how to make your own widget for those who wish to create everything out of their own creativeness. Furthermore, it is very easy to navigate for developers as it is as easy as a plugin, all of the application programming user interface s(APIs) have been documented and it includes guides for theme and plugin authors. Developers can still uncovering the number of users downloading WordPress each day and the number of users registered with WordPress.
Javascripts and Ajax are used to present the widgets and they resemble other components in the sidebar. However, users cannot change the application in ground of how they work and the appearance. Standard components are:

Calendar: links appear with dates if there are posts for the day on the calendar

Links: list of links or blogroll which is separated according to their categories

Archives: displays links to archives with posts according to months

Categories: links to posts are according to the categories

Blog stats: display of the number of visitors to your blog page

Pages: links to each page blog

Search: a search box with a submit button to allow easy access to your blog

Text: users can use this to enter plain text, Javascript or html to display a number of possible text widgets uses

Most recent posts/comments: a display of recent comments and posts of a blog

Meta/admin: links to meta functions such as WordPress.org, Site Admin, Login, Logout, Entries RSS and Comments RSS

Another cool feature is a user can add RSS feed from other websites using these new widgets allowing more creative works in his blog pages. However, one must not use too many widgets as too many widgets will slow down the blog. Thus you must not be too greedy by controlling the used of widgets and avoid widgets that are badly designed.