WordPress 3.0 has made creating custom meta boxes much more fun since you can completely alter the edit pages using them and make your own post pages entirely from metaboxes you’ve defined. Here’s an example of how to create a URL and description metabox.
Once in a while you need to write about something different and go way beyond the norm from what your used to. Here is a guest post I wrote that does just that.
You won’t see very many posts like this from me in the near future so enjoy it while it lasts.
Sometimes you just need a basic widget that isn’t all packed with crazy options and included files. This plugin comes packaged as basic as you can get with no bells and whistles or anything useless. Just the bare essentials for doing what you need to do.
Now you can display your latest Twitter updates in your sidebar, and not have a ton of overhead or extra stuff slowing your site down.